Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet to Poet) by Fiona Sampson (PDF)

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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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⭐I’m working my way through the major poets at the moment and Shelley was next on my list. I bought this book in the Poet to Poet series therefore and it contains most of his major works. Shelley was a leading Romantic poet and a lot of his poems are about the effect beautiful women had on him as well as many poems about nature and the landscape. A few of his poems touched on social and political events of his time also. I can’t say that his poetry really did much for me. Many of the poems were far too long and rambling and his themes weren’t of much interest to me. However I was impressed by the smoothness of his poetry and his masterful,effortless rhyming. Modern poets take note. My favourite poems were Song, The Flower that Smiles Today and The Mask of Anarchy,the only one of his long poems that I actually quite liked. Shelley was very much a product of his time and today his poems seem rather dated. I doubt he’d feel as romantic towards 21st Century women somehow.

⭐This beautifully produced volume contains a generous selection of Shelley’s work, including some striking, unfamiliar pieces, as well as his best work, which includes ‘The Mask of Anarchy’, ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘Adonais’, ‘Ozymandius’ and ‘England 1819’. It has generous extracts from ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and ‘The Triumph of Life’ (neither of which do much for me). To cap it all, it’s a hardback at paperback price. And it’s attractively designed.

⭐A friend who rather late in life is “doing” poets. Shelley was next, and would I look out for something? Yes I would. I did, and found this beautiful little hardback volume, no bigger than a paperback, with a lovely cover that would grace anyone’s bedside table, even if they decided that Shelley was not for them!

⭐Just husband did not fancy the poems

⭐Beautifully crafted and full of the stuff you’re looking for

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