The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Newly Collated and Revised, and Edited with a Memoir and Notes (Centenary Edition)

Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1894. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. LACKS VOLUME 4. Boards a bit soiled, bindings tight and square. 1894 Hard Cover. lxxxiii, 432; 481; ix, 544 pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt titles and borders, top edges gilt. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. Shelley was the heir to rich estates acquired by his grandfather, Bysshe (pronounced "Bish") Shelley. Timothy Shelley, the poet's father, was a weak, conventional man who was caught between an overbearing father and a rebellious son. The young Shelley was educated at Syon House Academy (1802 - 04) and then at Eton (1804 - 10), where he resisted physical and mental bullying by indulging in imaginative escapism and literary pranks. Between the spring of 1810 and that of 1811, he published two Gothic novels and two volumes of juvenile verse. In the fall of 1810 Shelley entered University College, Oxford, where he enlisted his fellow student Thomas Jefferson Hogg as a disciple. But in March 1811, University College expelled both Shelley and Hogg for refusing to admit Shelley's authorship of The Necessity of Atheism. Hogg submitted to his family, but Shelley refused to apologize to his.