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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Born

in Horsham, Sussex, England

August 04, 1792

Died

July 08, 1822

Genre

Poetry

Influences

Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley ...more

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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, Alfr ...more

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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 46,484 ratings · 3,318 reviews · 1,672 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Complete Poems 4.09 avg rating — 8,386 ratings — published 1839 — 409 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman (Editor), Neil Fraistat (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 4,563 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Theo Gayer-Anderson (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 2,697 ratings — published 1817 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Isabel Quigly (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 1913 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prometheus Unbound 3.76 avg rating — 2,111 ratings — published 1820 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ode to the West Wind 4.01 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 1820 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cenci 3.61 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 1819 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poetry and Prose 4.14 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1951 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shelley: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) 4.16 avg rating — 449 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adonais 4.10 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1821 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Percy Bysshe Shelley,

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Preface)

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Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley (?)

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2555 likes

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2070 likes

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

553 likes

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Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

58 votes, 9.1%

Edgar Allan Poe

53 votes, 8.4%

Sylvia Plath

32 votes, 5.0%

William Shakespeare

27 votes, 4.3%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 3.9%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

25 votes, 3.9%

William Blake (write-in)

21 votes, 3.3%

William Butler Yeats

18 votes, 2.8%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

18 votes, 2.8%

Not sure yet (write-in)

18 votes, 2.8%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.5%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes

16 votes, 2.5%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

15 votes, 2.4%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

14 votes, 2.2%

Robert frost (write-in)

12 votes, 1.9%

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Robert Burns

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8 votes, 1.3%

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8 votes, 1.3%

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7 votes, 1.1%

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7 votes, 1.1%

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7 votes, 1.1%

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7 votes, 1.1%

I don't have one

7 votes, 1.1%

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6 votes, 0.9%

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6 votes, 0.9%

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5 votes, 0.8%

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4 votes, 0.6%

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3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

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Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

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Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.3%

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1 vote, 0.2%

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1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

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Dylan Thomas (write-in)

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