The best critical edition of Shelley’s complete work is that by H. B. Forman in eight volumes, London, 1880. Other useful editions of the poetical works are: Professor G. E. Woodberry’s, four volumes, Boston, 1892; Professor Dowden’s, one volume, London, 1900; T. Huchinson’s, Oxford, 1905; and W. M. Rossetti’s, three volumes, London, 1881.

For an account of the earlier publications of Shelley’s works consult The Shelley Library: an Essay in Bibliography, by H. B. Forman.

The most comprehensive and authoritative life of Shelley is that by Professor Dowden in two volumes, London, 1886.

The following are the chief authorities, critical and biographical, to be consulted:

Ackermann, R.: (a) Quellen zu Shelley’s Poetischen Werken. 1890.

(b) Shelley’s Epipsychidion und Adonais. 1900.

(c) Prometheus Unbound. Kritische textansgabe, etc. 1908.

Allen, Edith L.: Shelley Day by Day. 1910.

Allen, Leslie H.: Die Personlichkeit P. B. Shelley’s. 1907.

Angeli, Helen A.: Shelley and His Friends in Italy. 1911.

Alexander, W. J.: Select Poems of Shelley.

Axon, W. E.: Shelley’s Vegetarianism. 1891.

Bates, E. S.: A Study of Shelley’s Drama. The Cenci.

Belfast, Earl of: Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. 1852.

Bennett, D.: The World’s Sages, Infidels and Thinkers. 1876.

Bernthsen, S.: Der Spinozismus in Shelley’s Weltanschauung. 1900.

Biazi, Guido: The Last Days of P. B. Shelley. 1898.

Brailsford, H. N.: Shelley, Godwin, and Their Circle.

Brown: The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley.

Brandes, G.: Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature. Vol. IV.

Brandl, Samuel T.: Coleridge und die Englische Romantik. 1886.

Brooke, Stopford A.: Studies in Poetry. 1907.

Byron, May.: A Day with the Poet P. B. Shelley. 1910.

Calvert, G. H.: Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe, Biographic Aesthetic Studies. 1880.

Carducci, G.: Prometeo Liberato, Torino Roma. 1894.

Chevrillon, T. A.: Etudes Anglaises. 1901.

Chiarini, Giuseppe: Ombre e Figure Saggi Critici. 1883.

A. Clutton-Brock: Shelley; the Man and the Poet. 1910.

Courthope, W. J.: The Liberal Movement in English Literature. 1885.Chapman, E. M.: English Literature and Religion. 1800-1900.

Clarke, Miss H. A.: Prometheus Unbound.

Copeland, C. T.: Shelley, P. B., Vol. IV. Gateway Series Texts.

Courthope, W. J.: A History of English Poetry, Vol. VI. 1910.

Crashway, Rose M.: Byron, Shelley, Keats Prize Essays. 1893.

Darmesteter, James: Essais de Litterature Anglaise. 1883.

Dawson, W. J.: Quest and Vision, Essays in Life and Literature. 1886.

Dell, E. E.: Pictures from Shelley. 1892.

De Quincy, Thomas: Essays on the Poets.

Dibdin: Reminiscences of a Literary Life. 1836.

Dowden, Edward: (a) Transcripts and Studies. 1896.

(b) The French Revolution and English Literature. 1897.

Dreyer, C.: Studier og Portraeter. 1901.

Droop, A.: Die Belesenheit, P. B. Shelley. 1906.

Druskowitz, Dr. Helene: Shelley. 1884.

Edgar, P.: A Study of Shelley. 1899.

Edmunds, E. W.: Shelley and His Poetry. 1911.

Ellis, F. S.: Alphabetical table of contents adapted to Forman’s. 1888.

Elsner: Shelley’s abhangigkeit, V. Godwin’s Political Justice. 1906.

Elton, C. T.: An Account of Shelley’s Visits to France. 1894.

Garnett, R.: Essays of an ex-Librarian. 1901.

Gillardon, H.: Shelley’s einwirkung auf Byron. 1898.

Gribble, Francis: Shelley. 1911.

Gummere, Francis B.: Democracy and Poetry.

Godwin, Parke: Out of the Past.

Guthrie, W. N.: Modern Poet Prophets. 1897.

Hancock, A. E.: The French Revolution and English Poets. 1899.

Hogg, T. J.: The Life of P. B. Shelley. 1906.

Hunt, Leigh: (a) Autobiography. 1866.

(b) Imagination and Fancy.

Inghen, Robert: The Letters of P. B. Shelley. 1909.

Jack, A. A.: Shelley: An Essay. 1904.

Jeafferson, J. C.: The Real Shelley. 2 vols. 1885.

Johnson C. F.: Three Americans and Three Englishmen. 1886.

Kingsley, Charles: Works, Vol. XX. 1880.

Kegan P. C.: William Godwin; His Friends, etc.

Knight: Ausg. V. Wordsworth’s Poetischen. Werken.

Koszul, A.: La Jeunesse de Shelley. 1910.

Kroder, Armin: Shelley’s Verskunst dargestellt von Dr. Armin Kroder. 1903.

Locock, C. D.: An examination of the Shelley manuscript in the Bodleian Library. 1903.

Maurer, Otto: Shelley und die Frauen. 1906.

McCarthy, D. F.: Shelley’s Early Life. 1872.

MacDonald, George: The Imagination and other Essays. 1883.

Masson, D.: Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays. 1874.Manford, Eimer: Die personlichen Bexiehungen zwischen Byron und Shelleys’ Eine Kritische studie. 1911.

Marshall, Mrs.: Life of Mary W. Shelley. 1890. 3 vols.

Mayor, J. B.: Classification of Shelley’s metres.

Miller, B.: Leigh Hunt’s Relations with Byron and Shelley. 1910.

Manoini, D.: P. B. S. Note biographice con una scelta di liriche tradotte in Italiano, citta di Castelio. 1892.

Marshall, Mrs. J.: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 2 vols. 1889.

Medwin, Thomas: The Life of P. B. Shelley, 1847.

Middleton, C. S.: Shelley and His Writings, 2 vols. 1858.

Moir, D. M.: Sketches of the Literature of the past half century. 1851.

Moore, H.: Mary W. Shelley. 1886.

Monti, G.: Studi Critici.

Payne, W. M.: The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Peacock, T. L.: Letters to P. B. Shelley. 1910.

Memoirs of Shelley.

Phelps, Wm. L.: The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.

Philarete, Charles: Etudes sur la Litterature et les moeurs de l’Angleterre au XIX siecle.

Polidori, J. W.: The Diary of Polidori Relating to Shelley.

Rabbe, Felix: Shelley; the Man and the Poet. 1887.

Richter, H.: P. B. Shelley. 1898.

Rossetti, Lucy M.: Mrs. Shelley. 1890.

Rossetti, W. M.: A Memoir of Shelley. 1888.

Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound Considered as a Poem.

Salt, H. S.: P. B. Shelley, Poet and Pioneer. 1896.

Schuyler, E.: Shelley with Byron in his Italian Influences.

Scott, R. P.: The Place of Shelley Among the Poets of His Time. 1878.

Scudder, V. D.: Prometheus Unbound. 1910.

The Life of the Spirit in Modern English Poets, Shelley.

Sharp, W.: Life of Shelley, Great Writers (bibliography). 1887.

Shawcross, J.: Shelley’s Literary and Philosophical Criticism. 1909.

Shelley, P. B.: Defence of Poetry, Br. essay. 1911.

Shelley, P. B.: Il Convito. Editore, Adolfo de Bosis, libro X-XI.

Shelley, J. G.: Shelley Memorials from Authentic Sources.

The Shelley Society Papers, including the following:

(a) Aveling: Shelley and Socialism.
(b) Blind Mathilde: Shelley’s View of Nature Compared with Darwin’s. 1886.
(c) Browning, Robert: Essay on Shelley. 1888.
(d) Dillon, A.: Shelley’s Philosophy of Love. Part II. 1891.
(e) Garnett, R.: Shelley and Lord Beaconsfield. 1888.
(f) Parkes, W. K.: Shelley’s Faith. 1891.

Shelley Society: Notebook of the Shelley Society.

Shelley, P. B.: Notebook of P. B. Shelley. 1911.Slicer, T. R.: P. B. Shelley, an Appreciation. 1903.

Smith, George B.: Shelley, a Critical Biography. 1877.

Sotherau, C.: Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer. 1870.

Stoddard, R. H.: Anecdote Biography of P. B. Shelley. 1877.

Symonds, H. A.: Shelley (in English Men of Letters). 1878.

Sweet, Henry: In An English Miscellany Presented to Dr. Furnivall. Oxford. 1901.

Taylor, G. R.: Mary Wollstonecraft. A Study in Economics and Romance. 1911.

Thomas, Edward: Feminine Influence on the Poets. 1911.

Thompson, J.: Biog. and Critical Studies (Shelley’s religious opinions).

Thompson, F.: Shelley: an Essay. 1909.

Til, Hermann: Metrische untersuchungen zu den blankversdichtungen Shelley. 1902.

Trelawny, E. J.: Recollection of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. 1906.

Trent, W. P.: The Authority of Criticism. 1899.

Todhunter, J.: A Study of Shelley. 1880.

White, W.: Anecdote Biography of P. B. Shelley. 1877.

Commemorazione di P. B. Shelley in Roma. 1893.

Young, H. B.: Dissertation on the Life and Novels of T. L. Peacock. 1904.

Wagner, W.: Shelley’s The Cenci, analyse, quellen und innerer zusammenhang, etc. 1903.

Ward, T. H.: The English Poets. Vol. IV. 1883.

Ward, Wilfrid: Aubrey De Vere: a Memoir.

Woodberry, George E.: The Torch. 1912.

Yeats, W. B.: Good and Evil. Vol. 6.

Zettner, Hans: Shelley’s Mythendichtung. 1902.