Miscellaneous Poems
About this audiobook
This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works.
The poems were collated and edited by Mary Shelley, who also wrote an introduction to the collection, which contains some biographical material and commentary on the poems.
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About the author
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the most iconic literary figures of the early Romantic movement. Like his great contemporary Lord Byron, Shelley was a true Romantic: passionate and impetuous in love, suspicious of authority and scornful of the niceties of polite society. His work covers a wide range, including verse dramas, poetry and prose writings on a variety of subjects. Shelley’s second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), whom he married in 1816, was a distinguished novelist in her own right. Following Shelley’s untimely death in 1822, she collected, edited and arranged for the publication of Shelley’s unpublished works.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a moral and political theorist who challenged women’s conditions in eighteenth century England. She not only made a powerful case for liberating and educating women, she also lived out her theories and refused to cave to patriarchal pressure; passionate and forthright, her A Vindication of the Rights of Women was a great feminist treatise that paved the way for social reform in the nineteenth century. Wollstonecraft married William Godwin, a fellow radical, after becoming pregnant with his child. She died just ten days after giving birth to their daughter, who would grow up to be Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
Denis Daly is an Australian audiobook producer and narrator.
