2025. 84pp. paperback. ISBN: 9781763735675.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical politics, lyrical intensity, and visionary imagination. Expelled from Oxford for atheism and estranged from his family, he led a life of rebellion and exile. Known as a radical agitator, apostle of free love, and a brilliant poetic innovator, his works include Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound, and The Mask of Anarchy.

This edition includes all the poems recommended by the VCAA for Year 12 VCE Literature.

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Shelley drowned in a storm off the coast of Italy in 1822 when his sailing boat sank during a voyage from Livorno to Lerici. The cover is taken from a painting by Louis Edouard Fournier, ‘The Funeral of Shelley’ that dramatizes the aftermath of his death.

Contents

The Mask of Anarchy
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
Song to the Men of England
A New National Anthem
Ode to the West Wind
Sonnet: England in 1819
The Indian Serenade
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci …
Love’s Philosophy
To a Skylark
Ode to Liberty
To Night
The Question
The flower that smiles today …