Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

English Romantic Poet, Novelist and Essayist

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Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest English Romantic poets. His poems, such as “Alastor” and “Ozymandias,” overflow with intense emotion and radical ideas. He’s husband to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, famous for Frankenstein.

Early Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born into a wealthy family, in Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex on August 4, 1792. He was three years older than John Keats, another of the finest English Romantic poets. Shelley was educated at Eton College.

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Works by Percy B. Shelley

• Zastrozzi 1810
• Queen Mab 1813
• The Revolt of Islam 1818
• The Cenci 1819
• Prometheus Unbound 1820
• The Triumph of Life 1824 (published after he died)
• The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe, Poetry Book

Poetry

• A Lament
• A New World
• A Widow Bird Sate Mourning for her Love
• Adonais
• Alastor (The Spirit of Solitude)
• Asia: From Prometheus Unbound
• England in 1819
• Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
• Invocation
• Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
• Love’s Philosophy
• Mont Blank
• Music, When Soft Voices Die
• Ode to the West Wind
• On a Poet’s Lips I Slept
• One Word is Too Often Profaned
• Ozymandias
• Prince Athanase
• Song To the Men of England
• Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
• The Daemon of the World
• The Indian Serenede
• The Invitation
• The Revolt of Islam
• The Waning Moon
• The Witch of Atlas
• Time
• To a Lady, with a Guitar
• To Night
• To the Moon
• To Wordsworth
• When the Lamp is Shattered