"Adonais, elegía en la muerte de John Keats", su más famosa composición, y otros cuarenta de sus mejores textos forman esta antología de la obra poética de Percy Bysshe Shelley, una de las cumbres de la lírica inglesa y universal de todos los tiempos. Nacido en 1792 y muerto en 1822, Shelley, pese a no haber llegado a cumplir los treinta años, tuvo una vida increíblemente agitada y fructífera, tanto en lo sentimental como en lo literario, dejando una justificada leyenda de poeta romántico y una obra imperecedera. Traducción, prólogo y notas de Juan Abeleira y Alejandro Valero.
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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.
