Shelley, Percy Bysshe(1792–1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley is usually thought of as a romantic and lyric poet rather than as a philosophical one. He was, however, the author of a number of polemical...
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LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE.
The witch of Atlas.
To Mary.
The witch of Atlas.
Note by Mrs. Shelley.
Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot
the tyrant. A tragedy in two
acts.
Note b...
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The English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, Suss...
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The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in hi...
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While Percy Bysshe Shelley's reputation rests primarily on his considerable accomplishments as one of the great English Romantic poets, he left a substantial body of prose writings, among them one of ...
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Percy Shelley was a poet, literary theorist, translator, political thinker, pamphleteer, and social activist. A voluminous reader and bold experimenter, he is worth consulting on any of the multifario...
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Biography EssayThe life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short l...
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Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritu...
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Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature ...
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The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was a Romantic poet who, among other works, wrote a poignant, somewhat autobiographical poem called "Ode to the West Wind." This poem consists of five sonnet-length stanzas wr...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born into an upper class family at Field Place nearby Horsham in Sussex on August 4, 1792. He was the eldest son in the family. His father, Sir Timothy Shelley was a land owne...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was a man and writer with an open mind and full of eagerness to envisage new means for human experience and expression. He is one the most famed poets of the Romantic era. There w...
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Romanticism and Percy Bysshe Shelley
The age of Romanticism covers the period between the French Revolution in 1789 and the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837. During this period of time there were...
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
