pPercy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the fourth volume of the five-volume iThe Poems of Shelleyi, which presents all of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied and allusive verse.ppMost of the poems in the present volume were written between late autumn 1820 and late summer 1821. They include iAdonaisi, Shelley's lament on the death of John Keats, widely recognised as one of the finest elegies in English poetry, as well as iEpipsychidioni, a poem inspired by his relationship with the nineteen-year