Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings

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This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her. Cover Volume 1 Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Editor’s Introduction Italian Lives Editor’s introduction, Italian Lives Notes on Italian Lives Volume I Notes on Italian Lives Volume II Italian Lives Volume I Petrarch Boccaccio Lorenzo de’ Medici Marsiglio Ficino Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Angelo Poliziano Bernardo Pulci Luca Pulci Luigi Pulci Cieco Da Ferrara Burchiello Bojardo Berni Machiavelli Italian Lives Volume II Guicciardini Vittoria Colonna Guarini Chiabrera Tassoni Marini Filicaja Metastasio Goldoni Alfieri Monti Ugo Foscolo Editorial Corrections Volume 2 Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Editor's Introduction, Spanish and Portuguese Lives Notes on Spanish and Portuguese Lives Editor's Introduction, French Lives Notes on French Lives I [Montaigne to Rochefoucauld] Spanish and Portuguese Lives Introduction Mosen Jordi The Cancioneros Alphonso X and his Court Alphonso XI and his Court Juan de Mena Juan de Enzina Boscan Garcilaso de la Vega Diego Hurtado de Mendoza Luis de Leon Herrera Saa de Miranda Jorge de Montemayor Castillejo The Early Dramatists Ercilla [Not by Mary Shelley] Cervantes Lope de Vega Vicente Espinel — Esteban de Villegas Gongora Quevedo Calderon Early Poets of Portugal Ribeyro Saa de Miranda Gil Vicente Ferreira Camoëfts French Lives Volume I Montaigne Rabelais [not by Mary Shelley] Corneille Rochefoucauld Editorial Corrections Spanish and Portuguese Lives French Lives I [Montaigne to Rochfoucauld] Volume 3 Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Abbreviations Notes on French Lives I [Molière to Fénélon] Notes on French Lives II French Lives Volume I [continued from volume 2] Molière La Fontaine [not by Mary Shelley] Pascal Sévigné (Madame de) Boileau Racine Fénélon French Lives Volume II Voltaire Rousseau Condorcet Mirabeau Madame Roland Madame de Staël Editorial corrections Volume 4 Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Editor's Introduction, 'Life of William Godwin' Editor’s Introduction Poems Uncollected Prose Translations Part-Authored and Attributed Writings 'Life of William Godwin' (1836-40) Poems 'The Choice' (Hunt/Forman Version) (1823) 'The Choice' (Journal Version) (c. 1824—5) 'On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peel Castle' (1825) 'To Jane — (with the "Last Man")' [Fragment] (1826) 'Absence' ('Ah! he is gone — and I alone') (1830) 'A Dirge' (Keepsake Version) (1830) 'A Dirge' (1839) 'A Night Scene' (1830) 'The Death of Love' (1831) 'Stanzas'('To love in solitude and mystery') (1832) 'Stanzas' ('I must forget thy dark eyes' love-frauglit gaze') (1832) 'Stanzas' ('The tide of Time was at my feet') (1833) 'La Vida es sueño' ('The tide of Time was at my feet') (1834) 'Tempo è ben di Morire' ('Sadly borne across the waves') (1833) 'Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright' (1833) 'Stanzas' ('O come to me in dreams, my love!') (1838) 'Stanzas' ('How like a star you rose upon my life') (1838) 'Stanzas' ('O listen while I sing to thee') (1838) 'O listen while I sing to thee: Canzonet' (c. 1843) 'Proserpine Draft Fragment' (1820) Variants Uncollected Prose Fiction Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot (1820) 'Lacy de Vere' (1826) 'Cecil' [Fragment] (after 1844) Non-Fiction 'The Theseus Fragment' (c. 1814—16) 'The Cyrus Fragment' (c. 1814—16) 'The Samuel Fragment' (c. 1819—20) 'The necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology to a Christian' [Fragment] (c. 1819—20) 'Life of Shelley' [Fragment] (1823) 'Modern Italian Romances' (1838) Translations 'Correspondence, Maxims and Reflections of Louis XVI' [Fragment] (1816) 'Cupid and Psyche' [Fragment] (1817) 'Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci' (1839) 'Inez de Medina' [Fragment] (? 1847—50) Part-Authored and Attributed Writings 'History of the Jews' [Fragment] (? 1815) 'Address to the Duchess of Angoulême' [Fragment] (1815 or 1816) 'Cry of War to the Greeks' [Fragment] (1821) Three poetic fragments: 'God of the best, the brightest' (1824) 'Alas, I weep my life away' (1831) 'Struggle No More' (1831) 'Review of The Italian Novelists' (1827) 'The Convent of Chaillot' (1827) Appendix: Maurice corrections Editorial Corrections Index to Volumes 1—4