"Shelley was one of the most boldly original, experimental and distinctive voices of the English Romantic movement. This new collection brings together nearly all of his major writings, with poems ranging from exquisistely crafted lyrics to substantial verse compositions such as QueenMab and Prometheus unbound, and prose works that include reflective and speculative esays on subjects as varied as religion, vegetarianism and the Devil - as well as his great plea in favour of literary creation, A defence of poetry. Together they show an artist of remarkabler intellectual range, technical accomplishment and radical vision, whose work weaves together the political, the personal and the imaginative."--Back cover.