Percy Bysshe Shelley

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire Percy Bysshe Shelley

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire was a poetry collection published anonymously by Percy Bysshe Shelley in September 1810 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing and sold by publisher John Joseph Stockdale. The work was Shelley's first published volume of poetry. Shelley wrote the poems in collaboration with his sister Elizabeth. It was written before Shelley entered the University of Oxford. The volume consisted of sixteen poems and a fragment of a poem. Shelley wrote eleven of the poems while Elizabeth wrote five. Shelley contributed seven lyrical poems, four Gothic poems, and the political poem "The Irishman's Song". Elizabeth wrote three lyrical poems and two verse epistles. The collection included the early poems "Revenge", "Ghasta, Or, The Avenging Demon!!!", "Song: Sorrow", and "Song: Despair". The epigraph was from the "Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Sir Walter Scott: "Call it not vain: - they do not err, Who say, that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper.