Percy Bysshe Shelley is considered by many to be among the greatest and most influential writers in the British Romantic movement, possessing the radical and nonconformist beliefs that would influence his own and many others works. Hazlitt said that Shelley was " clogged by no dull system of realities, no earth-bound feelings" revealing the visionary within this great writer.

When presented with the statement "A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not", one could observe it literally. The distinct influences that a poet and his works have upon literature, time and place etc, and the way in which time and place influence the poetry. The eternal, the infinite and the one, are all powerful words, whether associated with the poet or the poetry are integral to this statement and therefore should also...