The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Volume 3, PT. 1)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... HELLAS A LYRICAL DRAMA Manto 'bim1 eseaon 'atonon (edit. Color. Hellas was published, with Shelley's name, in the spring of 1822, at London, under the imprint of S. & R. Bentley for C. & J. Oilier. The drama was composed at Pisa in the fall of 1821, and sent to Oilier, November 11. The text is modified by Shelley's list of Errata, sent to Oilier April 11, 1822. A transcript, made by Williams for Shelley, is in the possession of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson. Oilier had Shelley's permission to suppress any passage in the notes, and he omitted certain portions of them and also some lines of the poem itself. These passages were partially restored by Oalignani, in his edition of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, Paris, 1829, and by Mrs. Shelley, 18391. Oilier also suppressed a paragraph of the preface which is now first restored from a unique copy of Hellas referred to here as Shelley, n. d., in the possession of Mr. C. W. Frederickson. The Prologue was published by Dr. Garnett in Belies of Shelley, 1882, from the Boscombe MSS. To HIS EXCELLENCY PRINCE ALEXANDER MAVROCORDATO LATE SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE HOSPODAR OF WALLACHTA THE DRAMA OF HELLAS IS INSCRIBED AS AN IMPERFECT TOKEN OF THE ADMIRATION, SYMPATHY, AND FRIENDSHIP OF THE AUTHOR Pisa, November 1, 1821. PREFACE The poem of Hellas, written at the suggestion of the events of the moment, is a mere improvise, and derives its interest (should it be found to possess any) solely from the intense sympathy which the Author feels with the cause he would celebrate. The subject in its present state is insusceptible of being treated otherwise than lyrically, and if I have called this poem a drama from the circumstance of its being composed in dialogue, the license is not greater than that which has been assumed by other poets who have...