Shelley / by A.C. Swinburne. - Worcester: Achille J. St Onge, 1973. - 68x57 mm., 23 p. Gilt red leather; blue decorated endpapers; edges gilt. 500 copies printed by Enschedé en Zn., Haarlem (The Netherlands). Set in Romaneé and Spectrum type. Bound by Reliure du Centre, Limoges (France).
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822). English romantic poet. His works are regarded among the finest lyric poetry in the English langua
ge. Even writers from later generations did admire him; like Shaw, Russell, Oscar Wilde, Upton Sinclair. Henry Thoreau's civil obedience was inspired by him. Shelley spent much of his life in Europe where he became a close friend of Lord Byron. He died in a boating accident in Italy. Some of his poems, like Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind, are among the most famous in English. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909), English poet and novelist and critic. From 1903 till 1909 he was eight times nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this miniature book the poem Shelley, probably composed in 1856 or 1857 in his days at the Oxford University, appears for the first time in print. (Data from Wikipedia)
