SHELLEY'S POEMS
THE POETICAL WORKS OF SHELLEY. Selected by Morchard Bishop; Macdonald, London, English price, 8/6, S perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a, drawing-room," is how Lord Byron wrote of his friend Shelley ~-not perhaps the aptest description of him, unless it is considered as the femark of one genius about another. This latest edition of Shelley’s poems (ore of a series called Macdonald’s Nlustrated Classics) is as elegant as any gentleman could wish. It is bound in what looks like red leather, and should make a good school prize or present, even if it is not quite up to the pre-war standard in these things. The principal omissions, which should not greatly trouble the general student, are The Revolt of Islam, Rosalind and Helen, and Queen Mab. Bishop’s introduction is as interesting and sensible as it is up-to-date, while the type is clear, the lines are numbered, and there are several reproductions of National Gallery portraits of Keats, Byron, Godwin, and other fel-
low-romanticists.
P.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 14
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168SHELLEY'S POEMS New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 14
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