Modern Library Giant G4 KEATS & SHELLEY Poems 1934 w/DJ

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[John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)] [Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)]

JOHN KEATS

AND

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

WITH THE EXPLANATORY NOTES

OF SHELLEY'S POEMS BY MRS. SHELLEY

Modern Library Giant G 4

 

New York: The Modern Library. No Date, but 1934.

(x), 398; (xix), 914 pp. Complete.

Octavo. 8¼ x 5¼ inches (21 x 13½ cm).

Early Printing.

 

Original publisher's blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine, and gilt torchbearer logo on front cover. Plain endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket which lists 220 books on the rear panel.

 

In Very Good condition. Jacket shows some chipping and small tears. Light rubbing and edgewear to the boards, with a small inked name and date of 1934 on front pastedown. The book is free of underlining or marginalia, and the binding is strong.

 

The light smudge to the right of some photos is from a spot on the lens, and is not a blemish on the page or cover.

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet, who became one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. During his very short life his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen would be immense. Keats' poetry was characterised by elaborate word choice and sensual imagery, notably in a series of odes that were his masterpieces, and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. Keats' letters, which expound on his aesthetic theory of "negative capability", are among the most celebrated by any writer.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, Adonaïs, The Revolt of Islam, and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. He also wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811) and the short works The Assassins (1814) and The Coliseum (1817).

Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong disapproving voice, made him an authoritative and much-denigrated figure during his life and afterward. He became an idol of the next two or three or even four generations of poets, including the important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as Lord Byron, Henry David Thoreau, William Butler Yeats, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and poets in other languages such as Jan Kasprowicz, Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy.

He was admired by Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Isadora Duncan, and Upton Sinclair. He was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife.

- From Wikipedia.

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