Poetry

This Oxford Edition gathers everything Shelley wrote in verse: the early Gothic ballads, the philosophical epic Queen Mab, the great lyrical dramas Prometheus Unbound and Hellas, the closet tragedy The Cenci, the pastoral satire The Witch of Atlas, the elegy Adonais, and hundreds of shorter lyrics, fragments, and translations from Homer, Dante, Calderón, and Goethe. Mary Shelley’s prefaces and notes, written for the first collected edition of 1839, supply biographical context for each period of composition. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson.