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Born in August 4, 1792 / Died in July 8, 1822 / United States / English

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Books

  • Zastrozzi, A Romance (London: Printed for G. Wilkie & J. Robinson, 1810).
  • Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire, by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley (Worthing: Printed by C. & W. Phillips and sold by J. J. Stockdale, London, 1810).
  • Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786 Edited by John Fitzvictor, by Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg (Oxford: Printed & sold by J. Munday, 1810).
  • St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian. A Romance, as a Gentleman of the University of Oxford (London: Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 1811).
  • The Necessity of Atheism (Worthing: Printed by C. & W. Phillips, 1811).
  • An Address, to the Irish People (Dublin, 1812).
  • Proposals for An Association of those Philanthropists, Who Convinced of the Inadequacy of the Moral and Political State of Ireland to Produce Benefits which Are Nevertheless Attainable Are Willing to Unite to Accomplish Its Regeneration (Dublin: Printed by I. Eton, 1812).
  • A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, Occasioned by the Sentence which He Passed on Mr. D. I. Easton, As Publisher of the Third Part of Paine's Age of Reason (Barnstaple: Printed by Syle, 1812).
  • Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem: with Notes (London: Printed by P. B. Shelley, 1813; New York: Printed by W. Baldwin, 1821).
  • A Refutation of Deism: in a Dialogue (London: Printed by Schulze & Dean, 1814).
  • Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude; and Other Poems (London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock & Joy and Carpenter & Son, by S. Hamilton, 1816).
  • A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote Throughout the Kingdom, as The Hermit of Marlow (London: Printed for C. & J. Ollier, 1817).
  • Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century (London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely & Jones and C. & J. Ollier, by B. M'Millan, 1818 [i.e., 1817]); revised as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, in Twelve Cantos (London: Printed for C. & J. Ollier by B. M'Millan, 1817).
  • Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems (London: Printed for C. & J. Ollier, 1819).
  • The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts (Leghorn, Italy: Printed for C. & J. Ollier, London, 1819).
  • Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems (London: C. & J. Ollier, 1820).
  • Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy. In Two Acts. Translated From the Original Doric (London: Published for the author by J. Johnston, 1820).
  • Epipsychidion. Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V_____ Now imprisoned in the Convent of _____ (London: C. & J. Ollier, 1821).
  • Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion etc. (Pisa: With the types of Didot, 1821; Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe & sold by Gee & Bridges, 1829).
  • Hellas: A Lyrical Drama (London: C. & J. Ollier, 1822).
  • Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (London: Printed for John & Henry L. Hunt, 1824).
  • The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem, edited by Leigh Hunt (London: Edward Moxon, 1832).
  • Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, 2 volumes, edited by Mary Shelley (London: Edward Moxon, 1840).
  • The Wandering Jew. A Poem, edited by Bertram Dobell (London: Shelley Society, 1887).
  • Note books of Percy Bysshe Shelley, From the Originals in the Library of W.K. Bixby, 3 volumes, edited by H. Buxton Forman (St. Louis: Privately printed, 1911).
  • A Philosophical View of Reform, edited by T. W. Rolleston (London: Oxford University Press, 1920).
  • The Esdaile Notebook. A volume of early poems, edited by Kenneth Neale Cameron from the manuscript in the Carol H. Pforzheimer Library (New York: Knopf, 1964).
  • The Esdaile Poems, edited from the manuscripts by Neville Rogers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
  • The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics. Shelley, 3 volumes: The Esdaile Notebook, The Masque of Anarchy, Hellas: A Lyrical Drama, edited by Donald H. Reiman (New York & London: Garland, 1985).
Editions
  • The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 4 volumes, edited by Mary Shelley (London: Edward Moxon, 1839; 1 volume, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1839).
  • The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Various Additional Pieces From MS. and Other Sources, 2 volumes, edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: E. Moxon, 1870; New York: T. Crowell, 1878).
  • The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley, edited by Thomas Hutchinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904); revised by G. M. Matthews (London: Oxford University Press, 1969).
  • The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Julian Edition, 10 volumes, edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter Edwin Peck (London: Ernest Benn, 1926-1930).
  • "Shelley's Translations from Plato: A Critical Edition," in James Notopoulous, The Platonism of Shelley: A Study of Platonism and the Poetic Mind (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1949).
  • Shelley's Prose; or The Trumpet of a Prophecy, edited by David L. Clark (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954; corrected 1966).
  • Posthumous Poems of Shelley: Mary Shelley's Fair Copy Book, Bodleian Ms. Shelley Adds. d.9 Collated with the Holographs and the Printed Texts, edited by Irving Massey (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1969).
  • Shelley's Poetry and Prose, edited by Donald Reiman and Sharon Powers (New York: Norton, 1977).
Other
  • Essay on Christianity, in Shelley Memorials, edited by Lady Jane Shelley (London: Smith, Elder, 1859).
Letters
  • Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Richard Garnett (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882).
  • Letters From Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener, 2 volumes, edited by T. J. Wise and Harry Buxton Forman (London: Privately printed, 1890).
  • Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to William Godwin, 2 volumes, edited by Wise and Forman, (London: Privately printed, 1891).
  • The Shelley Correspondence in the Bodleian Library: Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly published from the collection presented to the library by Lady Shelley in 1892, edited by H. R. Hill (Oxford: Printed for the Bodleian Library by John Johnson, 1926).
  • Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 8 volumes, volumes 1-4, edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron; volumes 5-8, edited by Donald H. Reiman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961-1986).
  • The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 volumes, edited by Frederick L. Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964).
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The three great repositories for manuscripts and letters by Shelley and his circle are the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Lord Abinger's collection (on deposit at the Bodleian); and the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection, now in the New York Public Library. In addition, there are notebooks and manuscripts in the Huntington Library, the British Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Harvard, the Library of Congress, the University of Texas, Texas Christian University, and the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome.