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Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792–1822
A brilliant and rebellious voice of English Romanticism, he wrote some of the era’s most memorable lyric poetry while pushing fiercely against political, social, and religious authority. Though he died at just 29, poems like "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" helped secure his lasting place in literature.
17 Audiobooks
History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni.
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Witch of Atlas
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
O May I Join the Choir Invisible! and Other Favorite Poems
by George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus ontboeid: Een lyrisch drama in vier bedrijven
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 [of 2]
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peter Bell the Third
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sensitive plant
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Daemon of the World
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Vindication of Natural Diet.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelleyn runoja
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
About the author
Born in Sussex in 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley became one of the major poets of the English Romantic movement. His life was marked by defiance from an early age: he was expelled from Oxford after publishing a pamphlet on atheism, and his writing kept the same bold, questioning spirit throughout his short career.
Shelley’s poetry combines intense musical language with big ideals about freedom, love, imagination, and human possibility. He is especially known for works such as Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and Prometheus Unbound, and he was admired for the emotional force and visionary sweep of his verse.
He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and spent much of his later life in Europe. Shelley died in a boating accident off the coast of Italy in 1822, but his reputation grew strongly after his death, and he is now widely read as one of the defining poets of his age.