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Excerpt from Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism: Edited With an Introduction The present edition of Shelley's prose works comprises all his later critical and speculative writings (with the exception of the prefaces to the longer poems) and a selection from his letters, illustrating more particularly his literary and artistic criticism. The youthful romances and the various political pamphlets, as well as the lengthy notes to Queen Mab, have been omitted from the volume, the primary aim of which is to exhibit Shelley's maturer genius on its critical and philosophical side. This principle of selection has necessarily confined the edition within somewhat narrow limits. Except under the pressure of some great public occasion (and then only in his earlier years), Shelley was not readily moved to sustained utterance in prose. At first sight this may appear strange, for he was by no means averse from those interests which find in prose their natural vehicle of expression. Apart from his 'passion for reforming the world', Shelley had also a passion for speculating upon it and unravelling its meaning. Of the first he has left abundant record in the reform pamphlets of his youth; yet after 1812, with the exception of the Marlow pamphlet, he wrote nothing with a directly practical aim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.