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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Born: August 03 1792

Died: 0707 07 18221822

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life.

Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong skeptical voice, made him a authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations of poets, including the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and poets in other languages such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy. He was also admired by Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and Bertrand Russell. Famous for his association with his contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron, he was also married to novelist Mary Shelley.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Books from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frankenstein

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

The Complete Poems

Shelley's Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry

Ozymandias

Prometheus Unbound

Ode to the West Wind

English Romantic Poetry

Selected Poetry and Prose

A Defence of Poetry

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

Great Sonnets

Great Poets of the Romantic Age

History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni

Poems of Byron, Keats and Shelley

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More

Prometheus Bound & Prometheus Unbound

No despertéis a la serpiente: antología poética bilingüe

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