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Over the next year you’re going to see a lot of updates from me about Percy Shelley. Shelley was a great man. He was a visionary. He was a genius. He saw the world, and he understood it. He saw beyond the idiotic structures that man has built; he saw beyond society and people: he saw to the very heart of nature and the romantic imagination, and he embraced it. Percy Shelley was a great man. Percy Shelley is my hero. His poetry is profound. It speaks to me on levels I didn’t think possible. Imagi...
Please can I rip all the pages out of this book and rub them all over my body?
T.S. Eliot can say what he wants. Shelley towers over him.
He's great, or 'Great,' I guess. Still, like cheesecake, Shelley's a little rich for me. Moreover, I feel like Romanticism created plenty of its own Ozymandiuses with its big ideas and its fierce self-regard.
The central thematic concerns of Shelley’s poetry are largely the same themes that defined Romanticism, especially among the younger English poets of Shelley’s era: beauty, the passions, nature, political liberty, creativity, and the sanctity of the imagination. What makes Shelley’s treatment of these themes unique is his philosophical relationship to his subject matter—which was better developed and articulated than that of any other Romantic poet with the possible exception of Wordsworth—and h...
Before I get going on this review, let me link to the reviews I've already done of Shelley's longer (or more famous) works:"Ozymandias""Alastor" Prometheus Unbound The Cenci "Adonais""The Witch of Atlas"It's been a while since I really gave time to one poet in the way that I used to be able to over summer break. Not only did I complete my Keats study, but I also was able to get in an extensive study of Lord Byron. While I was able to look at some works by other Romantics along the way, I fe...
Shelley is the best lyricist in poetic history. In my humble opinion anyway. It's a shame that he's overshadowed all the time by his wife, but he is once again slowly being recognised as one of the greater romantic poets..
Reading his biography one can't help but pity or despise him.Reading his poetry one can't help but fall in love with him.
I think I’ve read enough—while I’d read shorter works by Shelley relatively extensively when much younger, I don’t think I’d yet had the sophistication to appreciate the import of the longer more philosophical works… and maybe now I’m too old to appreciate them! I’m kidding, but I am pretty taken aback by how the philosophy in Shelley’s work seems to be so in line with our own times.I'll say this, that aesthetically Shelley can be very beautiful and there are definitely interesting moments in Sh...
Ah, Shelley. Rad poet, radder human being.So about two months ago I picked up a biography of the Romantic poets & the marriage of Mary & Percy Shelley, then realized I only knew one poem by Shelley, saw his collected works on Project Gutenberg, and was like, sure this'll be fun!Reading every poem ever written by Percy Shelley has taught me a few things about myself, mainly that while I am very here for the Shelley ~aesthetic~, I am less here for the actual act of reading, especially the long win...
God tier poet, hands down, and up, and around. Percy Bysshe Shelley is the coolest one on the poet's block, I would sell my soul to revive this absolute legend.
It's Shelley.
Can man be free if women be a slave?-Laon and Cythna, 1817Percy is my favourite poet. It is hard for me to consider how to write this review without gushing all over his work, but I'll try. Also, not the edition I've read; I have had the misfortune to not, as of yet, get to read the entirety of his works.What fascinated me the most was how modern Percy's arguments seem. He was a vegetarian, believing in that humans, plants, and animals are equal. He had come to this conclusion after reading Hind...
Prose-wise, Shelley is my favourite poet. So light and powerful, like the wind, and pure like crystals (I'm just waxing lyrical, but you get my point)Ode to the West Wind, and The Masque of Anarchy, such power and beauty in political poems! Revolution will come! Also, Shelley's poems aren't just "young person's passion and naivety", for instance, in Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples, he depicts loneliness and dejection, but even then, the beach imagery is gorgeous and pure, and in the end...
Shelley is my favourite poet.He was a true revolutionary.All his works are very endearing and also infuse the "revolutionary" spirit in one's heart.He was really on a cosmic scale.Sublime!
Love Shelley.
