Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822Author :
Published : Monday 20 October 1986
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Volumes VII and VIII not only carry the chronological catalogue of relevant manuscripts into July 1820, but they also contain an important retrospective of recently acquired Shelley and Byron letters and literary manuscripts from their summer together in Switzerland in 1816 through the end of 1819. (Some eighty-five percent of the manuscripts appearing in these volumes were not known to exist when Volumes Vâ?"VI of Shelley and His Circle went to press.) Among these are Shelleyâ?Ts long letter to Peacock describing his first acquaintance with Byron and their trip together around Lake Geneva (hitherto published as two separate letters); the press-copy manuscripts of Byronâ?Ts Beppo and Shelleyâ?Ts â?oAthanase: A Fragmentâ??; letters of Henry Brougham and Madame de Stael that comment on Byron in Switzerland; numerous letters by Byronâ?Ts Venetian mistresses; and letters charting the growth of Byronâ?Ts attachment to Teresa Guiccioli. In volume VIII, the materials of 1820 include E. J. Trelawnyâ?Ts account and commonplace book of 1820â?"1822; letters by Keats and others mentioning him; hitherto established letters from Peacock and others relevant to Shelleyâ?Ts debt to a Bath upholstery firm; Shelleyâ?Ts annotations in copies of Godwinâ?Ts Political Justice and Spinozaâ?Ts Traclatus Theologico-Politicus; three newly discovered letters of Shelley to his Florentine banker, as well as other important letters by Shelley, Godwin, and Leigh Hunt; and a web of correspondence between Teresa Guiccioli and Byron while they carried on their affair from different apartments in the Palazzo Guiccioli. These primary materials, all meticulously transcribed (those in Italian and Latin also accompanied by full translations) are complemented by detailed commentaries on events, people, ideas, and problems reused by the manuscripts, as well as by the following major essays: â?oShelley as Athanaseâ?? by Donald H. Reiman; â?oCountesses and Cobblersâ?T Wives: Byronâ?Ts Venetian Mistressesâ?? by Doucet Devin Fischer; â?oMixed Company: Byronâ?Ts Beppo and the Italian Medleyâ?? by Jerome J. McGann; â?oCountess Guiccioliâ?Ts Byronâ?? by Doucet Devin Fischer; â?oTrelawnyâ?Ts Lost Yearsâ?? by William St. Clair; and â?oShelley and the Upholsterers of Bathâ?? by Donald H. Reiman.
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