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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson

by Fiona Sampson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory -- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. -- To

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 01 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 0571274307
ISBN 13: 9780571274307
Book Overview: This selection of Percy Bysshe Shelley poems, chosen by Fiona Sampson, joins a series in which Faber and Faber presents eight beautiful editions of classic Romantic poetry.

Author Bio
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.