Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poems Selected By Fiona Sampson

Informationen zum Autor Fiona Sampson studied at the universities of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen. She has published sixteen books, including poetry, translations and studies of writing process, of which the most recent is Rough Music (2010). Her awards include a Cholmondeley and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Music Lessons: The Newcastle Poetry Lectures were published in 2011. Klappentext A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. This selection of Percy Bysshe Shelley poems, chosen by Fiona Sampson, becomes one of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series. Zusammenfassung A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Berry, Maurice Riordan, Fiona Sampson, Percy Shelley
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.05.2012
• EAN: 9780571259472
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25947-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 200 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Poet to Poet; POET TO POET
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Romantics, Literary studies: poetry and poets