Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792–1822)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Works

Poems

• Index of Titles (work-in-progress)

Individual poems

• An Ariette for Music (1832)
• An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. from Adonais
• Arethusa
• A Vision of the Sea (1820)
• A Widow Bird Sate Mourning for Her Love
• Circumstance from Epigrams
• Death ("They die—the dead return not—Misery…")
• Dirge for the Year
• England in 1819
• Epitaph
• Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa (1821)
• Fragment on Keats
• Good-Night
• Hymn of Apollo
• Hymn of Pan
• Lines ("That time is dead for ever, child")
• Lines ("Far, far away, O ye")
• Lines to a Critic
• Lines to a Reviewer
• Milton's Spirit, 1820, publ. 1870
• Music
• Mutability ("The flower that smiles to-day")
• On a Faded Violet (known also as On a Dead Violet)
• On Fanny Godwin
• "One Word is Too Often Profaned"
• Passage of the Apennines
• Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811)
• Satan Broken Loose
• Song
• Song of Proserpine
• Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave…")
• Sonnet ("Lift not the painted veil…")
• Sonnet: Political Greatness
• Stanza
• Stanzas: Written in Dejection, Near Naples
• Summer And Winter
• The Devil's Walk
• The False Laurel And The True
• The Fugitives
• The Isle
• The Long Past
• The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
• The Mask of Anarchy
• The Past
• The Question
• The Revolt of Islam
• The Sensitive Plant (1820)
• The Two Spirits: An Allegory
• The Vine-shroud
• The World's Wanderers
• Time
• To —— ("I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden…")
• To —— ("Music, when soft voices die…")
• To Byron
• To Coleridge
• To Emilia Viviani
• To Jane: The Invitation
• To Jane: The Recollection
• To Mary Shelley
• To-morrow
• To Night
• To Sophia (Miss Stacey)
• To Stella from Epigrams
• Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady, Emilia V--, Now Imprisoned in the Convent of-- from Epipsychidion
• When the Lamp is Shattered
• With a Guitar, to Jane
• Zucca

Anthologized

Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900

• Hymn of Pan
• The Invitation
• Hellas
• Night
• From the Arabic
• Lines
• To —— (One word is too often profaned...)
• The Question
• Remorse
• Music, when Soft Voices die

Plays

• The Cenci
• Hellas (1822)
• Prometheus Unbound (1820)
• Oedipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the tyrant: A tragedy in two acts (1820)

Novels

• Zastrozzi
• St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian

Essays

• An Address to the Irish People (1812)
• A Refutation of Deism: in a Dialogue (1814)
• On "Frankenstein" (~1817)
• The Necessity of Atheism (1817)
• An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte (1817)
• A Defence of Poetry (1821)
• The Elysian Fields, A Lucianic Fragment (1821)
• On the Devil, and Devils (1839)
• Speculations on Metaphysics (1840)

Journals

• History of a Six Weeks' Tour
• Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816

Letters

• To William Godwin, 25 July, 1818
• To T. L. Peacock, 25 July, 1818

Translations

• The Cyclops of Euripides (composed 1819, first published in 1824)

Collections

• The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914). Clarendon Press, 1914. aka “The Oxford Shelly”. (transcription project)
• The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reeves and Turner, 1880. (transcription project)
• Prose Works, From the Original Editions. Edited, Prefaced and Annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Works about Shelley

Reference works

• "Shelley, Percy Bysshe," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Shelley, Percy Bysshe," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (21) (1886)
• "Shelley, Percy Bysshe," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Shelley, Percy Bysshe," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Shelley, Percy Bysshe," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Others

• Shelley, a poem, with other writings relating to Shelley (1884), by James Thomson ("B.V.")
• "Remarks on Shelley" in Studies in Letters and Life (1890), by George Edward Woodberry
• "Shelley", in Biographical and Critical Studies (1896), by James Thomson
• "Shelley", in Rosemary and Pansies (1904), by Bertram Dobell