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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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Description
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Alastor; Or, the Spirit of Solitude and Other Poems. London: for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy...,1816.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (106 x 100 mm). Final blank, H4, present; fine and unfoxed. Contemporary polished calf, gilt; some light rubbing to joints.
first edition. "This obscure but splendid allegory was the first poem in which Shelley's genius was fully displayed" (Hayward). "It is generally conceded that in Alastor Shelley showed himself a greater master of blank verse than any other poet of the time" (Granniss Shelley 32). Uncommon in an early binding.
first edition. "This obscure but splendid allegory was the first poem in which Shelley's genius was fully displayed" (Hayward). "It is generally conceded that in Alastor Shelley showed himself a greater master of blank verse than any other poet of the time" (Granniss Shelley 32). Uncommon in an early binding.
Literature
Ashley 5:60; Forman, Shelley 42; Granniss 32; Hayward 226