Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 - 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."Poems
- To Wordsworth
- A Summer Evening Churchyard: Lechlade, Gloucestershire
- To-- I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden
- From the Arabic, an Imitation
- Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant
- Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was
- Epipsychidion
- On Death
- A Vision Of The Sea
- One sung of thee who left the tale untold
- Time
- To Coleridge