THE WITCH OF ATLAS.

1[Composed at the Baths of San Giuliano, near Pisa, August 14-16, 1820;

2published in Posthumous Poems, edition Mrs. Shelley, 1824. The

3dedication To Mas-y first appeared in the Poetical Works, 1839, 1st

4edition Sources of the text are (1) the editio princeps, 1824; (2)

5editions 1839 (which agree, and, save in two instances, follow edition

61824); (3) an early and incomplete manuscript in Shelley’s handwriting

7(now at the Bodleian, here, as throughout, cited as B.), carefully

8collated by Mr. C.D. Locock, who printed the results in his

9Examination of the Shelley manuscripts, etc., Oxford, Clarendon Press,

101903; (4) a later, yet intermediate, transcript by Mrs. Shelley, the

11variations of which are noted by Mr. H. Buxton Forman. The original

12text is modified in many places by variants from the manuscripts, but

13the readings of edition 1824 are, in every instance, given in the

14footnotes.]