The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley [Three Volume Set - In Zaehnsdorf Binding]

Shelley, Percy Bysshe and Edited by Mrs. Shelley

Verlag: Edward Moxon, London, 1857

Beschreibung

16mo, Gilt lettered and decorated covers and spines. All edges gilt. Binding signed by Zaehnsdorf Bindery. Nice little set. Gilt inner dentelle. Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, the unfinished work The Triumph of Life; and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820). Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre- Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 025555

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Titel: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley [...

Verlag: Edward Moxon, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1857

Einband: Leather

Illustrator: Engravings

Zustand: Very Good Set

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)