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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, oil painting by Amelia Curran, 1819; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Quick Facts
- Born:
- Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng.
- Died:
- July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy] (aged 29)
- Notable Works:
- “A Defence of Poetry”
- “A Philosophical View of Reform”
- “Adonais”
- “Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude”
- “Epipsychidion”
- “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
- “Letter to Maria Gisborne”
- “Mont Blanc”
- “Ode to the West Wind”
- “Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant”
- “Ozymandias”
- “Peter Bell the Third”
- “Prometheus Unbound”
- “Queen Mab”
- “Rosalind and Helen”
- “The Cenci”
- “The Cloud”
- “The Masque of Anarchy”
- “The Necessity of Atheism”
- “The Revolt of Islam”
- “The Witch of Atlas”
- “To a Sky-Lark”
- Movement / Style:
- Romanticism
- Notable Family Members:
- spouse Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Subjects Of Study:
- literary criticism
- poetry
- On the Web:
- Historic UK - The Life and Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Dec. 18, 2024)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng.—died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]) was an English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. Shelley was the heir to rich estates acquired by his grandfather, Bysshe (pronounced “Bish”) Shelley. Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father, was a weak, conventional man who was caught between an overbearing father and a rebellious son. The young Shelley was educated at Syon House Academy (1802–04) and ...(100 of 2137 words)