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 (v. 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

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.