Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 4

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Editor’s Introduction, ‘Life of William Godwin’ -- Editor’s Introduction -- Poems -- Uncollected Prose -- Translations -- Part-Authored and Attributed Writings -- ‘LIFE OF WILLIAM GODWIN’ (1836–40) -- POEMS -- ‘The Choice’ (Hunt/Forman Version) (1823) -- ‘The Choice’ (Journal Version) (c. 1824–5) -- ‘On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peel Castle’ (1825) -- ‘To Jane — (with the “Last Man”)’ [Fragment] (1826) -- ‘Absence’ (‘Ah! he is gone – and I alone’) (1830) -- ‘A Dirge’ (Keepsake Version) (1830) -- ‘A Dirge’ (1839) -- ‘A Night Scene’ (1830) -- ‘The Death of Love’ (1831) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘To love in solitude and mystery’) (1832) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘I must forget thy dark eyes’ love-fraught gaze’) (1832) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘The tide of Time was at my feet’) (1833) -- ‘La Vida es sueño’ (‘The tide of Time was at my feet’) (1834) -- ‘Tempo è ben di Morire’ (‘Sadly borne across the waves’) (1833) -- ‘Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright’ (1833) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘O come to me in dreams, my love!’) (1838) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘How like a star you rose upon my life’) (1838) -- ‘Stanzas’ (‘O listen while I sing to thee’) (1838) -- ‘O listen while I sing to thee: Canzonet’ (c. 1843) -- ‘Proserpine Draft Fragment’ (1820) -- Variants -- UNCOLLECTED PROSE -- Fiction -- Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot (1820) -- ‘Lacy de Vere’ (1826) -- ‘Cecil’ [Fragment] (after 1844) -- Non-Fiction -- ‘The Theseus Fragment’ (c. 1814–16) -- ‘The Cyrus Fragment’ (c. 1814–16) -- ‘The Samuel Fragment’ (c. 1819–20) -- ‘The necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology to a Christian’ [Fragment] (c. 1819–20) -- ‘Life of Shelley’ [Fragment] (1823) -- ‘Modern Italian Romances’ (1838) -- TRANSLATIONS -- ‘Correspondence, Maxims and Reflections of Louis XVI’ [Fragment] (1816) -- ‘Cupid and Psyche’ [Fragment] (1817) -- ‘Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci’ (1839) -- ‘Inez de Medina’ [Fragment] (?1847–50) -- PART-AUTHORED AND ATTRIBUTED WRITINGS ‘History of the Jews’ [Fragment] (?1815) -- ‘Address to the Duchess of Angoulême’ [Fragment] (1815 or 1816) -- ‘Cry of War to the Greeks’ [Fragment] (1821) -- Three poetic fragments:‘God of the best, the brightest’ (1824) ‘Alas, I weep my life away’ (1831) ‘Struggle No More’ (1831) -- ‘Review of The Italian Novelists’ (1827) -- ‘The Convent of Chaillot’ (1827) -- Appendix: Maurice corrections -- Editorial Corrections -- Index to Volumes 1–4.

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her