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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Public domain text

202,805 words · about 14 h 12 min to read

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Author
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
Language
English
Subjects
English poetry
Length
202,805 words · about 14 h 12 min
Sections
63 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (63)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Preface about 15 min
  3. Postscript about 16 min
  4. Part 1 about 8 min
  5. Part 2 about 11 min
  6. Preface about 29 min
  7. Author'S Preface about 13 min
  8. Dedication about 5 min
  9. Canto 1 about 19 min
  10. Canto 2 about 15 min
  11. Canto 3 about 11 min
  12. Canto 4 about 11 min
  13. Canto 5 about 22 min
  14. Canto 6 about 18 min
  15. Canto 7 about 13 min
  16. Canto 8 about 10 min
  17. Canto 9 about 12 min
  18. Canto 10 about 15 min
  19. Canto 11 about 8 min
  20. Canto 12 about 20 min
  21. Part 1 about 4 min
  22. 2. FRAGMENT 1 about 50 min
  23. Preface about 27 min
  24. Preface about 7 min
  25. Dramatis Personae under 1 min
  26. Act 1 about 28 min
  27. Act 2, Scene 1 — MORNING. A LOVELY VALE IN THE INDIAN CAUCASUS. ASIA, ALONE about 10 min
  28. Act 2, Scene 3 — A PINNACLE OF ROCK AMONG MOUNTAINS. ASIA AND PANTHEA about 3 min
  29. Act 2, Scene 4 — THE CAVE OF DEMOGORGON. ASIA AND PANTHEA about 10 min
  30. Act 3, Scene 1 — HEAVEN. JUPITER ON HIS THRONE; THETIS AND THE OTHER DEITIES ASSEMBLED about 18 min
  31. Act 4 about 34 min
  32. Preface about 9 min
  33. Act 1, Scene 1 — AN APARTMENT IN THE CENCI PALACE. ENTER COUNT CENCI AND CARDINAL CAMILLO about 5 min
  34. Act 1, Scene 2 — A GARDEN OF THE CENCI PALACE. ENTER BEATRICE AND ORSINO, AS IN CONVERSATION about 10 min
  35. Act 2, Scene 1 — AN APARTMENT IN THE CENCI PALACE. ENTER LUCRETIA AND BERNARDO about 7 min
  36. Act 2, Scene 2 — A CHAMBER IN THE VATICAN. ENTER CAMILLO AND GIACOMO, IN CONVERSATION about 5 min
  37. Act 3, Scene 1 — AN APARTMENT IN THE CENCI PALACE. LUCRETIA, TO HER ENTER BEATRICE about 14 min
  38. Act 3, Scene 2 — A MEAN APARTMENT IN GIACOMO'S HOUSE. GIACOMO ALONE about 3 min
  39. Act 4, Scene 1 — AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA. ENTER CENCI about 7 min
  40. Act 4, Scene 2 — BEFORE THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA. ENTER BEATRICE AND LUCRETIA ABOVE ON THE RAMPARTS about 2 min
  41. Act 4, Scene 3 — AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE. ENTER BEATRICE AND LUCRETIA about 10 min
  42. Act 5, Scene 1 — AN APARTMENT IN ORSINO'S PALACE. ENTER ORSINO AND GIACOMO about 4 min
  43. Act 5, Scene 2 — A HALL OF JUSTICE. CAMILLO, JUDGES, ETC., ARE DISCOVERED SEATED; MARZIO IS LED IN about 7 min
  44. Act 5, Scene 3 — THE CELL OF A PRISON. BEATRICE IS DISCOVERED ASLEEP ON A COUCH. ENTER BERNARDO about 5 min
  45. Act 5, Scene 4 — A HALL OF THE PRISON. ENTER CAMILLO AND BERNARDO about 30 min
  46. Dedication about 3 min
  47. Prologue about 1 min
  48. 1. DEATH about 2 min
  49. 2. THE DEVIL about 2 min
  50. 3. HELL about 3 min
  51. 4. SIN about 3 min
  52. 5. GRACE about 2 min
  53. 6. DAMNATION about 5 min
  54. 7. DOUBLE DAMNATION about 48 min
  55. Dramatis Personae under 1 min
  56. Act 1 about 15 min
  57. Act 2, Scene 2 — THE PUBLIC STY. THE B0ARS IN FULL ASSEMBLY. ENTER PUEGANAX about 48 min
  58. Preface about 25 min
  59. Preface about 1 h 6 min
  60. Dramatis Personae under 1 min
  61. 1. THE MASQUE OF THE INNS OF COURT about 27 min
  62. 4. HAMPDEN, PYM, CROMWELL, HIS DAUGHTER, AND YOUNG SIR HARRY VANE about 2 min
  63. Scene 5 about 21 min

The opening of Preface

This edition of his "Poetical Works" contains all Shelley's ascertained poems and fragments of verse that have hitherto appeared in print. In preparing the volume I have worked as far as possible on the principle of recognizing the editio princeps as the primary textual authority. I have not been content to reprint Mrs. Shelley's recension of 1839, or that of any subsequent editor of the "Poems". The present text is the result of a fresh collation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined in a footnote. Again, wherever--as in the case of "Julian and Maddalo"--there has appeared to be good reason for superseding the authority of the editio princeps, the fact is announced, and the substituted exemplar indicated, in the Prefatory Note.

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