& J. Ollier in the spring of 1822. A transcript of the poem by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edward Williams is in the Rowfant Library. Ollier availed himself of
Shelley’s permission to cancel certain passages in the notes; he also
struck out certain lines of the text. These omissions were, some of
them, restored in Galignani’s one-volume edition of “Coleridge,
Shelley and Keats”, Paris, 1829, and also by Mrs. Shelley in the
“Poetical Works”, 1839. A passage in the “Preface”, suppressed by
Ollier, was restored by Mr. Buxton Forman (1892) from a proof copy of
“Hellas” in his possession. The “Prologue to Hellas” was edited by Dr.
Garnett in 1862 (“Relics of Shelley”) from the manuscripts at Boscombe
Manor.
Our text is that of the editio princeps, 1822, corrected by a list of
“Errata” sent by Shelley to Ollier, April 11, 1822. The Editor’s Notes
at the end of Volume 3 should be consulted.]