Volume 39, Number 15 · September 24, 1992
'He Doth Not Sleep'
By Richard Holmes
The New Shelley: Later Twentieth-Century Views
edited by G. Kim Blank
St. Martin's, 277 pp., $45.00
Shelley's Poetry and Prose
edited by Donald H. Reiman, edited by Sharon B. Powers
Norton, 700 pp., $15.95 (paper)
The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts Volume XI: The Geneva Notebook of Percy Bysshe Shelley
transcribed and edited by Michael Erkelenz
Garland, 224 pp., $127.00
Shelley's First Love: The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove
by Desmond Hawkins
Archon Books, 153 pp., $27.50
Love's Children
by Judith Chernaik
Knopf, 229 pp., $20.00
Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity
by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The occasion of Shelley's two hundredth birthday (August 4) reminds me of an open-air rock concert once given by the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, London. Mick Jagger, wearing a white skirt, read out some 'posy' for his drummer, Brian Jones, who had recently been drowned (not in the Gulf of Spezia but in his Surrey swimming pool). The posy was announced as a stanza of Shelley's 'Adonais'—
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