Part I: Biography and relationships. Shelley and the British Isles / Shelley and Italy / Resolutions, destinations : Shelley's last year / Shelley and women / Shelley and his publishers / Shelley and philosophy : on a future state, speculations on metaphysics and morals, on life / Religion and ethics : the necessity of atheism, a refutation of deism, on Christianity / Love, sexuality, gender : on love, discourse on love, and The banquet of Plato / Politics and satire / Politics, protest, and social reform : Irish pamphlets, Notes to Queen Mab, Letter to Lord Ellenborough, a philosophical view of reform / Poetics / Prose fiction : Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, The assassins, The coliseum / Shelley's letters / Shelley's draft notebooks / Lyric development : Esdaile notebook to Hymns of 1816 / Epic experiments : Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna / Quest poetry : Alastor and Epipsychidion / Lyrical drama : Prometheus unbound and Hellas / Tragedy : the Cenci and Swellfoot the tyrant / Shelley's familiar style : Rosalind and Helen, Julian and Maddalo, and Letter to Maria Gisborne / Sonnets and odes / Popular songs and ballads : writing the Unwritten story in 1819 / Visionary rhyme : The sensitive-plant and The witch of Atlas / Lyrics and love poems : Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams, and Mary Shelley / Shelley's pronouns : Lyrics, Hellas, Adonais, and The triumph of life / Shelley and the Bible / Shelley, mythology, and the classical tradition / Shelley and the Italian tradition / Origins of evil : Shelley, Goethe, Calderón, and Rousseau / Shelley and Milton / Shelley and the English tradition : Spenser and Pope / Shelley and his contemporaries / Shelley and music / Shelley, Shakespeare, and theatre / Shelley, the visual arts, and cinema / Shelley's sciences / Shelley, travel, and tourism / Shelley and the nineteenth century / The influence of Shelley on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry / Editing Shelley / Shelley criticism from romanticism to modernism / Shelley criticism from deconstruction to the present