La poesía romántica inglesa no sería la misma sin el talento visionario de Percy B. Shelley, y algo importantisimo faltaría en nuestra imaginación si Mary Shelley no hubiese escrito Frankenstein. Ahora sabemos que estos dos escritores talentosísimos se apoyaron en su matrimonio para leerse, estimularse, críticarse y mejorar en sus respectivos proyectos artísticos. De viaje, compartiendo casa, criando a sus hijos, incluso después de la muerte de Percy... los poemas de ambos cónyuges reflejaba su mutua influencia creativa. Para explorar esta relación entre dos extraordinarios poetas que compartían sus vidas la presente edición propone una antología de algunos de los poemas más importantes de Percy, y por primera vez en castellano, la poesía completa de Mary. El primero despliega su sutil capacidad alegórica para explorar la belleza y la fugacidad de la vida, así como la amenaza constante de una muerte temprana que acabaría por alcanzarle. La segunda se erige como una vibrante polemista moral, muy sensible a la belleza y al poder destructivo que despliegan las fuerzas de la naturaleza.
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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.
