<p><I>Proserpine and Midas</I> (1820) is a collection of plays by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Combining Mary¿s blank verse and Percy¿s lyric poems, the Shelleys offer two groundbreaking retellings of classical myth. Together, the plays illuminate the working relationship of a husband and wife who helped define Romanticism, highlighting their individual talents in the process. While <I>Proserpine</I> was published in 1832 in <I>The Winter¿s Wreath</I>, a London periodical, Mary Shelley was unable to find a publisher for <I>Midas</I>, which remained unprinted until the twentieth century. Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, leaves her daughter Proserpine in the care of two trusted nymphs. While the women are out picking flowers, Proserpine is kidnapped by Pluto, the dreaded lord of the underworld. Distraught, Ceres laments the loss of her beloved girl and appeals to Jove for assistance. <I>Proserpine</I> is a retelling of an ancient myth which remains mostly faithful to its sour
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<p><b>This new volume of JHU Press''s landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edited from original manuscripts.</b></p><p>"The world will surely one day feel what it has lost," wrote Mary Shelley...
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This edition contains all Shelley's poetry, from his juvenilia to his great works such as "The Revolt of Islam" and "Ode to the West Wind", and his only completed verse drama "The Cenci", a melodramatic Venetian tale...
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