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A LIST OF SHELLEY'S PRINCIPAL

WRITINGS1

Oxford Herald for 2d March 1811, and there is strong reason to believe that it was by Shelley. No copy is known.

1. Zastrozzi, A Romance. By P. B. S., | sellers, 1811. This is advertised in the London: Printed for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 57 Paternoster Row, 1810. 2. Original Poetry. By Victor and Cazire. Worthing: Phillips. 8vo, pp. 64. No copy known.

3. Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; being Poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786. Edited by John Fitzvictor. Oxford Printed and Sold by J. Munday, 1810. 6. St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By A Gentleman of the University of Oxford. London: Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 41 Pall Mall, 1811. 7. An Essay on Love. In a letter to Godwin, Keswick, 16th January 1812, Shelley speaks of "the Essay on Love,' a little poem "-as if a printed work. No copy is known.

8. Leonora. This was a novel said to have been written in conjunction with T. J. Hogg. The printing is said to have been stopped in consequence of the expulsion of Shelley and Hogg from Oxford. Never issued.

9. The Necessity of Atheism. ing Printed by E. and W. Sold in London and Oxford.

WorthPhillips.

10. A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford, For assisting to maintain in Prison Mr. Peter Finnerty, imprisoned for a libel. London: Sold by B. Crosby and Co., and all other book

II. Lines on a Fête at Carlton House -a poem of about 50 lines said to have been printed, 1811. No copy is known, but a fragment has been orally preserved.

12. A Satire, 1811; supposed to have been printed, No copy known; the title unknown.

13. An Address to the Irish People. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dublin, 1812.

14. Proposals for an Association of those Philanthropists, who convinced of the inadequacy of the moral and political state of Ireland to produce benefits which are nevertheless attainable are willing to unite to accomplish its regeneration. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dublin: Printed by I. Eton, Winetavern Street (1812).

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15. Declaration of Rights-a broadside printed in Dublin, 1812.

16. The Devil's Walk; a Ballad-A broadside, 1812.

17. A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, occasioned by the sentence which he passed on Mr. D. I. Eaton, as publisher of the Third Part of Paine's Age of Reason (Printed by Syle at Barnstaple, 1812).

18. Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem: with Notes by Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Printed by P. B. Shelley, 23 Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, 1813. The poem was printed and published by

1 For fuller information the reader should consult the volume from which mainly this list has been drawn up: "The Shelley Library: An Essay in Bibliography by H. Buxton Forman Part I. [all published as yet]. London: Reeves and Turner, 1886.'

W. Clark, 201 Strand, London, in 1821, and was reissued in 1822 by R. Carlile, 55 Fleet Street. In 1821 it was reprinted in New York in duodecimo form.

19. A Vindication of Natural Diet. Being one of a Series of Notes to Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem. London Printed for J. Callow, medical bookseller, Crown Court, Princes Street, Soho, by Smith and Davy, Queen Street, Seven Dials, 1813.

20. A Refutation of Deism: in a Dialogue. London: Printed by Schulze and Dean, 13 Poland Street, 1814.

21. Review of Hogg's "Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff," contributed to The Critical Review, December 1814.

22. Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude: and other Poems. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. London Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row; and Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street; by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1816.

23. A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom. By the Hermit of Marlow. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 3 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, by C. H. Reynell, 21 Piccadilly, 1817.

24. An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte. By the Hermit of Marlow, 1817. [The motto "We pity the Plumage, but forget the Dying Bird has been mistaken for the title.] Known only through a reprint of Thomas Rodd about 1843.

25. History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with letters descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. London: Published by T. Hookham jun., Old Bond Street; and C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, 1817. This is in the main by Mary Shelley, with certain contributions from Shelley's pen.

26. Laon and Cythna; or, the Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the stanza of Spenser. By Percy B. Shelley. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street: by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, 1818.

This by alterations, cancel-leaves, and a fresh title was altered into

27. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in twelve Cantos. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. . London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, 1818. Some few copies are dated 1817. In 1829 the remainder was issued with a new titlepage and the imprint "London: Printed for John Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829." Some copies of this issue give the Laon and Cythna" text.

28. Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. London Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1819.

29. The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts. By Percy B. Shelley. Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street, London, 1819.

The Cenci appeared in a second edition. London : C. and J. Ollier, 1821.

30. Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with other Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: C. and J. Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1820.

31. Edipus Tyrannus; or Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy. In Two Acts. Translated from the Original Doric. London: Published for the Author, by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside; and sold by all booksellers, 1820.

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32. Epipsychidion. Verses addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia v now imprisoned in the Convent London C. and J. Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1821. 33. Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. By Percy B. Shelley. Pisa, with the Types of Didot, 1821. The second edition was brought out through the zeal of Arthur Hallam and the late Lord Houghton at Cambridge. Printed by W. Metcalfe, and sold by Messrs. Gee and Bridges, Market Hill, 1829.

34. Hellas A Lyrical Drama By Percy B. Shelley. London: Charles and James Ollier, Vere Street, Bond Street,

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LIST OF SHELLEY'S PRINCIPAL WRITINGS

1822, This was the last work issued Discovered Copy of Queen Mab. during Shelley's life.

35. Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London, 1824 : Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. [Edited by Mary Shelley.]

36. The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now First Published, with a Preface by Leigh Hunt. London: Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street, 1832.

37. The Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By T. Medwin, Esq., and Original Poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now First Collected. London Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1833.

38. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments, By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. In Two Volumes. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1840.

39. Relics of Shelley. Edited by Richard Garnett. London : Edward Moxon and Co., Dover Street, 1862.

40. The Dæmon of the World. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. The First Part as published in 1816 with Alastor. The Second Part, Deciphered and now First Printed from his own Manuscript Revision and Interpolations in the Newly

London: Privately printed by H. Buxton Forman, 38 Marlborough Hill, 1876.

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41. Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence: Together with a Lucianic Fragment and a Criticism on Peacock's Rhododaphne." By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Harry Buxton Forman. London Printed for Private Distribution, 1879.

A notice of Shelley's unpublished prose work, A Philosophical View of Reform (1819), will be found in Transcripts and Studies, by Edward Dowden, 1888, pp. 41-74.

Some account of early poems, still unpublished, will be found in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Edward Dowden, 1886, vol. i. pp. 344349; and poems, or passages from poems, in the unpublished MS. volume in the possession of Mr. Esdaile will be found in the same work, vol. i. pp. 268, 270-274, 286-288, 294, 298-299, 317-318, 347-348, 376, 385-386, 404, 413-414.

One poem, The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy, from the same MS, volume is printed in the Shelley Society's Publications, Second Series, No. 12. The Wandering Jew, edited by Bertram Dobell (1887), pp. 69-70.

ORDER OF POEMS

IN EDITIONS PUBLISHED DURING SHELLEY'S LIFETIME

IT seems right to put it in the reader's power to place certain poems in the order in which they originally appeared with Shelley's approval.

Lines Written among the Euganean
Hills.

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.
Sonnet: Ozymandias.

Alastor was followed in the volume of Prometheus Unbound was followed in the

1816 by

The Stanzas beginning "Oh! there are spirits in the air."

Stanzas, April 1814.
Mutability.

Stanzas beginning "The pale, the cold,

and the moony smile."

A Summer Evening Churchyard.
Sonnet To Wordsworth.
Sonnet

Feelings of a Republican.

Superstition (a fragment of Queen Mab). Sonnet from the Italian of Dante. Sonnet Translated from the Greek of Moschus.

The Dæmon of the World: Part I. Rosalind and Helen was followed in the volume of 1819 by

volume of 1820 by

The Sensitive Plant.

A Vision of the Sea.

Ode to Heaven.

An Exhortation.

Ode to the West Wind.

An Ode To the Assertors of Liberty (named originally An Ode written October 1819, before the Spaniards had recovered their Liberty "'). The Cloud.

To a Skylark. Ode to Liberty.

Hellas was followed in the volume of 1822 by

Lines written on hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon.

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