The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed) by Thomas Hutchinson

Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his relatively short and turbulent lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats.This volume is his complete poetical works (he also wrote plays, essays, prose and a couple of novels) and is edited by Thomas Hutchinson.  (This edition first printed in 1907; present copy is from 1940.) It includes two prefaces by Mrs (Mary) Shelley who had made an earlier collection of his poetry.  There is a portrait of Shelley as its frontispiece.  The copy is a very fine copy and attractive as much for a lover of books as for a lover of poetry.For every sale made Billowness Books donates 50p to a literacy charity: Book Aid International; Books Abroad; or World Literacy Foundation