Percy Bysshe Shelley
- ISBN-10
- 0571279880
- ISBN-13
- 9780571279883
- Series
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-15
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Author
- Fiona Sampson
Description
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory -- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. -- To
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