Le 28 juillet 1814, alors qu’il est déjà marié et père d’un enfant, Percy Bysshe Shelley s’enfuit sur le Continent avec la toute jeune Mary Godwin. Dans un étonnant périple de six semaines, à pied, à ...dos d’âne, en voiture ou en canoë, ils vont traverser une France dévastée par les guerres révolutionnaires avant de gagner la Suisse puis de suivre le cours enchanté du Rhin en Allemagne et en Hollande. Deux ans plus tard, les voici repartis vers la Suisse, à Genève, où Byron les rejoint bientôt pour un été qui appartient à la mythologie littéraire comme celui où la future Mary Shelley conçut l’idée de Frankenstein. Sur les pas de Rousseau ou en excursion sur la Mer de Glace, les jeunes gens découvrent des lieux émouvants ou sublimes qui laisseront une empreinte durable sur leur œuvre littéraire. Écrit à deux mains, Histoire d’un voyage de six semaines, publié à l’automne 1817, contient leurs impressions de ces deux voyages ainsi que l’un des plus grands poèmes de Percy Shelley, « Mont Blanc ». Entre fragmentation et unité, réalité et invention, cette œuvre profondément romantique, traduite pour la première fois intégralement en français, fait du récit de voyage une véritable composition poétique.
Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use ...them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings.Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.This comes to you from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can't. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon's whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device - start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.Portable Poetry - Let us join you for the journey.St George's Day. 23rd AprilA Nation's Day in VerseThe United States has July 4th, Ireland St Patrick's Day and France Bastille Day. Most Nations have a day when they turn to themselves; to reflect on the past, to revel in the present and to look forward to the future.For England 23rd April is St George's Day.St George, a hero from bygone days, who slays Dragons and pursues other mythic deeds, is part of childhood. But for modern times, for modern Nations, a greater purpose is needed.For England St George is best now described as a principle. A small Nation gown large and respected for it's brainpower, brawn and ingenuity and fighting for beliefs, misguidedly or not, that others can't or won't.Of course England's role has changed many times over the centuries but perhaps its basic tenets and desires haven't. Fair Play. A role for everyone on equal terms. Democracy. Tolerance. A safe haven for those oppressed. England 'expects' and sometimes succeeds.Perhaps William Shakespeare, the Bard himself, outlined our pride in his play Richard II:- This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wallOr as a moat defensive to a house,Against the envy of less happier lands This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.And now our poets and wordsmiths have their say.
A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of ...all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts and fragments. Edited upon historical principles by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, the multi volume edition will offer more poems and fragments than any previous collective edition, arranged in the order of their first circulation. These texts are followed by the most extensive collations hitherto available and detailed commentaries that describe their contextual origins and subsequent reception. Rejected passages of released poems appear as supplements to those poems, while other poetic drafts that Shelley rejected or left incomplete at his death will be grouped according to either their publication histories or the notebooks in which they survive.
Volume One includes Shelley's first four works containing poetry (all prepared for publication before his expulsion from Oxford), as well as The Devil's Walk (circulated in August 1812), and a series of short poems that he sent to friends between 1809 and 1814, including a bawdy satire on his parents and Oh wretched mortal, a poem never before published. An appendix discusses poems lost or erroneously attributed to the young Shelley.
These early poems are important not only biographically but also aesthetically, for they provide detailed evidence of how Shelley went about learning his craft as a poet, and the differences between their tone and that of his mature short poetry index a radical change in his self-image . . . The poems in Volume I, then, demonstrate Shelley's capacity to write verse in a range of stylistic registers. This early verse, even in its most abandoned forays into Sensibility, the Gothic, political satire, and vulgarity—perhaps especially in these most apparently idiosyncratic gestures—provides telling access to its own cultural moment, as well as to Shelley's art and thought in general.—from the Editorial Overview
Adonais Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Rossetti, William Michael
2010, c2010., 2009-05-01
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Adonais represents the height of artistic achievement for nineteenth-century Romantic poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley's book-length elegy in the pastoral style mourns the loss of fellow poet John Keats ...in 495 remarkably accomplished lines. Shelley himself regarded "Adonais" as the best of his work, and the poem is a must-read for fans of the Romantic movement, or for anyone who has struggled with loss.
Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works should form one volume; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The ...Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential—and pirated—poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft.
As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development.
The poetry of life Tetreault, Ronald
The poetry of life,
1987, 19871215, 1987
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Shelley's eventual adoption of dramatic form was the practical artistic consequence of his mythopoetic mode, the strategy by which he solved the creative problem of poetic narcissism, and the ...instrument with which he made his poetry into a social discourse.
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