Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other

This four-volume set contains Mary Shelley's lyric poetry and her writing for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography as well as some material that has only recently been positively attributed to her. The publication of this material will allow libraries to complete the canon of Mary Shelley's work at a time when her literary reputation and interest in her continues to grow.

Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

ix

General Editor's Introduction

xiii

Editor's introduction, Italian Lives

xxxvii

Notes on Italian Lives Volume I

xlviii

Notes on Italian Lives Volume II

li

ITALIAN LIVES VOLUME I

Petrarch

9

(43)

Boccaccio

52

(25)

Lorenzo de' Medici

77

(7)

Marsiglio Ficino

84

(1)

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

85

(1)

Angelo Poliziano

86

(4)

Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci

90

(10)

Cieco Da Ferrara

100

(2)

Burchiello

102

(1)

Bojardo

103

(6)

Berni

109

(7)

Machiavelli

116

(49)

ITALIAN LIVES VOLUME II

Guicciardini

165

(9)

Vittoria Colonna

174

(6)

Guarini

180

(11)

Chiabrera

191

(6)

Tassoni

197

(4)

Marini

201

(5)

Filicaja

206

(4)

Metastasio

210

(20)

Goldoni

230

(24)

Alfieri

254

(40)

Monti

294

(36)

Ugo Foscolo

330

(33)

Editorial Corrections

363

(132)

Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

xi

Editor's Introduction, Spanish and Portuguese Lives

xv

Notes on Spanish and Portuguese Lives

xxviii

Editor's Introduction, French Lives

xxxix

Notes on French Lives I [Montaigne to Rochefoucauld]

liv

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LIVES

1

(292)

Introduction

9

(18)

Mosen Jordi

13

(3)

The Cancioneros

16

(2)

Alphonso X and his Court

18

(1)

Alphonso XI and his Court

19

(2)

Juan de Mena

21

(3)

Juan de Enzina

24

(3)

Boscan

27

(16)

Garcilaso de la Vega

43

(24)

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

67

(10)

Luis de Leon

77

(13)

Herrera

90

(5)

Saa de Miranda

95

(1)

Jorge de Montemayor

96

(2)

Castillejo

98

(2)

The Early Dramatists

100

(7)

Ercilla [Not by Mary Shelley]

107

(12)

Cervantes

119

(51)

Lope de Vega

170

(39)

Vicente Espinel -- Esteban de Villegas

209

(6)

Gongora

215

(12)

Quevedo

227

(18)

Calderon

245

(9)

Early Poets of Portugal

254

(5)

Ribeyro

256

(1)

Saa de Miranda

257

(1)

Gil Vicente

257

(1)

Ferreira

257

(2)

Camoens

259

(34)

FRENCH LIVES VOLUME I

293

(202)

Montaigne

301

(18)

Rabelais [not by Mary Shelley]

319

(11)

Corneille

330

(20)

Rochefoucauld

350

Editorial Corrections:

Spanish and Portuguese Lives

377

(1)

French Lives I [Montaigne to Rochfoucauld]

378

Abbreviations

vii

Notes on French Lives I [Moliere to Fenelon]

xiii

Notes on French Lives II

xviii

FRENCH LIVES VOLUME I [continued from volume 2]

Moliere

1

(48)

La Fontaine [not by Mary Shelley]

49

(22)

Pascal

71

(22)

Sevigne (Madame de)

93

(44)

Boileau

137

(34)

Racine

171

(22)

Fenelon

193

(48)

FRENCH LIVES VOLUME II

Voltaire

241

(79)

Rousseau

320

(47)

Condorcet

367

(16)

Mirabeau

383

(48)

Madame Roland

431

(26)

Madame de Stael

457

(38)

Editorial corrections

495

Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

ix

Editor's Introduction, `Life of William Godwin'

xiii

Editor's Introduction

Poems

xxii

Uncollected Prose

xlii

Translations

lviii

Part-Authored and Attributed Writings

lxxi

`LIFE OF WILLIAM GODWIN' (1836--40)

3

(378)

POEMS

`The Choice' (Hunt/Forman Version) (1823)

117

(6)

`The Choice' (Journal Version) (c. 1824--5)

123

(5)

`On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peel Castle' (1825)

128

(2)

`To Jane --- (with the ``Last Man'')' [Fragment] (1826)

130

(1)

`Absence' (`Ah! he is gone -- and I alone') (1830)

131

(1)

`A Dirge' (Keepsake Version) (1830)

132

(1)

`A Dirge' (1839)

133

(1)

`A Night Scene' (1830)

134

(2)

`The Death of Love' (1831)

136

(2)

`Stanzas' (`To love in solitude and mystery') (1832)

138

(1)

`Stanzas' (`I must forget thy dark eyes' love-fraught gaze') (1832)

139

(1)

`Stanzas' (`The tide of Time was at my feet') (1833)

140

(1)

`La Vida es sueno' (`The tide of Time was at my feet') (1834)

141

(2)

`Tempo e ben di Morire' (`Sadly borne across the waves') (1833)

143

(2)

`Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright' (1833)

145

(1)

`Stanzas' (`O come to me in dreams, my love!') (1838)

146

(1)

`Stanzas' (`How like a star you rose upon my life') (1838)

147

(1)

`Stanzas' (`O listen while I sing to thee') (1838)

148

(1)

`O listen while I sing to thee: Canzonet' (c. 1843)

149

(6)

`Proserpine Draft Fragment' (1820)

155

(2)

Variants

157

(6)

UNCOLLECTED PROSE

Fiction

Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot (1820)

163

(16)

`Lacy de Vere' (1826)

179

(12)

`Cecil' [Fragment] (after 1844)

191

(12)

Non-Fiction

`The Theseus Fragment' (c. 1814--16)

203

(2)

`The Cyrus Fragment' (c. 1814--16)

205

(4)

`The Samuel Fragment' (c. 1819--20)

209

(7)

`The necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology to a Christian' [Fragment] (c. 1819--20)

216

(4)

`Life of Shelley' [Fragment] (1823)

220

(7)

`Modern Italian Romances' (1838)

227

(36)

TRANSLATIONS

`Correspondence, Maxims and Reflections of Louis XVI' [Fragment] (1816)

263

(19)

`Cupid and Psyche' [Fragment] (1817)

282

(14)

`Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci' (1839)

296

(13)

`Inez de Medina' [Fragment] (?1847-50)

309

(24)

PART-AUTHORED AND ATTRIBUTED WRITINGS

`History of the Jews' [Fragment] (?1815)

333

(14)

`Address to the Duchess of Angouleme' [Fragment] (1815 or 1816)

347

(3)

`Cry of War to the Greeks' [Fragment] (1821)

350

(4)

Three poetic fragments: `God of the best, the brightest' (1824) `Alas, I weep my life away' (1831) `Struggle No More' (1831)

354

(2)

`Review of The Italian Novelists' (1827)

356

(13)

`The Convent of Chaillot' (1827)

369

(12)

Appendix: Maurice corrections

381

(2)

Editorial Corrections

383

(2)

Index to Volumes 1--4

385

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