SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Rosalind and Helen. First edition, a handsome copy bound with the half-title and publisher's advertisements. The collection also includes the first appearance in book form of Shelley's most famous single poem, "Ozymandias", as well as "Lines Written on the Euganean Hills" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty".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. Many of the lyrics were composed during that "wet, ungenial" summer of 1816 which the poet spent on Lake Geneva with Mary, Claire Clairmont, Byron, and Polidori, and from which issued Mary's Frankenstein, Byron's Mazeppa, and Polidori's The Vampyre.

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