SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

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Poetical Pieces. [Together with] Posthumous Poems. First editions, second issue of the Poetical Pieces. The two volumes together feature a collection of Shelley's major works, some printed here for the first time in book form, including "Ozymandias".Poetical Pieces is a posthumous gathering of unsold first editions of Shelley's poetry, comprising Rosalind and Helen (1819), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and the second edition of The Cenci (1821).The second collection, Posthumous Poems, was "gathered by Mrs. Shelley from disordered papers left by her husband" (Grannis) and is without the errata slip. They contain the first printings of several of her husband's major poems, including Mont Blanc, Julian and Maddalo, and The Triumph of Life, as well as shorter lyrics, fragments, and translations from Homer, Euripides, Goethe, and others.Shelley's long poem Rosalind and Helen, a conversational lament for a disappointed poet-reformer set on the shores of Lake Como, was begun in Marlow and completed in 1818 at the baths of Lucca in Tuscany. This collection also includes the first book appearances of "Lines Written on the Euganean Hills" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", composed during that "wet, ungenial" summer of 1816 which the poet spent on Lake Geneva with Mary, Claire Clairmont, Byron, and Polidori. The trip also resulted in Mary's Frankenstein, Byron's Mazeppa, and Polidori's The Vampyre."Ozymandias" is erroneously listed as "Sonnet" on page 98 as issued. The second issue of Poe

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