The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]
In Five Volumes, crown 8vo, cloth boards , 3s. 6d. each .
THE COMPLETE WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY .
Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.
Poetical Works , in Three Volumes.
Vol. I. Introduction by the Editor; Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Shelley’s Correspondence with Stockdale; The Wandering Jew (the only complete version); Queen Mab, with the Notes; Alastor, and other Poems; Rosalind and Helen; Prometheus Unbound; Adonais, &c.
Vol. II. Laon and Cythna (as originally published, instead of the emasculated “Revolt of Islam”); The Cenci; Julian and Maddalo (from Shelley’s manuscript); Swellfoot the Tyrant (from the copy in the Dyce Library at South Kensington); The Witch of Atlas; Epipsychidion; Hellas.
Vol. III. Posthumous Poems, published by Mrs. Shelley in 1824 and 1839; The Masque of Anarchy (from Shelley’s manuscript); and other pieces not brought together in the ordinary editions.
Prose Works , in Two Volumes.
Vol. I. The two Romances of Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne; the Dublin and Marlow Pamphlets; A Refutation of Deism; Letters to Leigh Hunt, and some Minor Writings and Fragments.
Vol. II. Essays: Letters from Abroad; Translations and Fragments, edited by Mrs. Shelley, and first published in 1840, with the addition of some Minor Pieces of great interest and rarity, including one recently discovered by Professor Dowden. With a Bibliography of Shelley, and an exhaustive Index of the Prose Works.
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THE PROSE WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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CONTENTS.
A DEFENCE OF POETRY.
FOOTNOTES:
A Fragment.
THE BANQUET.
THE BANQUET.
APOLLODORUS.
COMPANION.
APOLLODORUS.
COMPANION.
APOLLODORUS.
V. ON THE DANGER OF THE STUDY OF ALLEGORICAL COMPOSITION (IN A LARGE SENSE) FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
VIII.—THE UNCHANGEABLE NATURE OF GOD.
IX.—THE PERMANENCY OF WHAT IS EXCELLENT.
X.—AGAINST SUPERSTITIOUS TALES.
XI.—THE TRUE ESSENCE OF FALSEHOOD AND ITS ORIGIN.
XII.—AGAINST A BELIEF IN HELL.
XIII.—ON GRIEF.
XIV.—THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY CONSTANT IMITATION.
XV.—ON THE EFFECT OF BAD TASTE IN ART.
XVI.—AGAINST THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS.
XVII.—ON MEDICINE.
XVIII.—THE EFFECT OF THE DIETETIC SYSTEM.
XIX.—AGAINST WHAT IS FALSELY CALLED “KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.”
ON A PASSAGE IN CRITO.
THE ASSASSINS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
ON LIFE.
ON A FUTURE STATE.
SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS.
I. THE MIND.
FRAGMENTS.
SPECULATIONS ON MORALS.
CHAPTER II.
FOOTNOTES:
GHOST STORIES.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
FRAGMENT FROM JOURNAL.
LETTERS FROM ITALY.
LETTERS FROM ITALY.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
FOOTNOTES:
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
TO MRS. GISBORNE.
TO HENRY REVELEY.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
TO HENRY REVELEY.
TO HENRY REVELEY.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE
TO HENRY REVELEY.
TO HENRY REVELEY.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
FOOTNOTES:
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MR. AND MRS. GISBORNE.
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO MRS. SHELLEY.
TO MRS. SHELLEY.
TO MRS. SHELLEY.
TO MRS. SHELLEY.
TO MRS. SHELLEY.
TO HORATIO SMITH.
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
TO MR. JOHN GISBORNE.
TO MRS. SHELLEY
TO HORATIO SMITH
TO MRS. WILLIAMS
TO MRS. SHELLEY
ADVERTISEMENT.
LETTER.
FOOTNOTES:
FOOTNOTES:
THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHELLEY.
1810.
1811.
1812.
1813.
1814.
1816.
1817.
1818.
1819.
1820.
1821.
1822.
POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS.
INDEX.
Transcriber’s Notes
