Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

FAIN: RQ-50270-07

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
Neil R. Fraistat (Project Director: November 2006 to November 2014)

Preparation of a critical edition of the poetry of British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. (36 months)

We are preparing an eight-volume edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which will be the first complete critical edition of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley since the 1920s and the first edited in America since 1892. Shelley is universally acknowledged to be one of the six major poets of the English Romantic period and is regarded by many as the poet of that era whose writings are most helpful for understanding and coping with the problems of Western Society today.