The Cambridge Companion to Shelley Available to Purchase

This lively collection of essays banishes notions of Shelley the harmless “romantic” lyric poet, replacing him with a politically “red” Shelley, a politically “green” Shelley, and the Shelley who does not let politics get in the way of a good story and a finely turned poetic line.

Different aspects of Shelley's life and works are explored through a framework of three key themes that form the sections of this book: Lives and Afterlives; Works; and Ideas, Beliefs, Affiliations. The plural of “lives and afterlives” acknowledges the sensitivities around the idea that a single narrative thread constructs a biography. In Shelley's...