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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Selected by Fiona Sampson
2011
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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-06-01 128 English Faber & Faber Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner. Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.In this series. a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces. the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.

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