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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 · 44,185 ratings · 2,989 reviews · 1,664 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Complete Poems 4.09 avg rating — 8,352 ratings — published 1839 — 402 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 — 4,562 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) 4.29 avg rating — 2,414 ratings — published 1817 — 7 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 — 2,069 ratings — published 1913 — 18 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 3.77 avg rating — 1,994 ratings — published 1820 — 128 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 4.05 avg rating — 1,080 ratings — published 1820 — 4 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 3.62 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 1819 — 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
	Selected Poetry and Prose 4.16 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 1951 — 25 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 — 420 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 4.12 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1821 — 152 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

2543 likes

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

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2018 likes

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

546 likes

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

52 votes, 9.1%

Edgar Allan Poe

47 votes, 8.2%

Sylvia Plath

29 votes, 5.1%

William Shakespeare

25 votes, 4.4%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

23 votes, 4.0%

Robert Frost

22 votes, 3.9%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

18 votes, 3.2%

William Blake (write-in)

17 votes, 3.0%

Not sure yet (write-in)

17 votes, 3.0%

William Butler Yeats

16 votes, 2.8%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.8%

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

15 votes, 2.6%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

15 votes, 2.6%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

13 votes, 2.3%

Robert frost (write-in)

11 votes, 1.9%

Robert Burns

10 votes, 1.8%

Alfred Tennyson

10 votes, 1.8%

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10 votes, 1.8%

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10 votes, 1.8%

Lord Byron (write-in)

10 votes, 1.8%

Christina Rossetti

9 votes, 1.6%

I'm not a fan of poetry

9 votes, 1.6%

Bob Dylan

7 votes, 1.2%

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7 votes, 1.2%

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6 votes, 1.1%

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6 votes, 1.1%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

6 votes, 1.1%

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6 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5 votes, 0.9%

Charles Baudelaire

5 votes, 0.9%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

5 votes, 0.9%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

5 votes, 0.9%

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5 votes, 0.9%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

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4 votes, 0.7%

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4 votes, 0.7%

Carl Sandburg

3 votes, 0.5%

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3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Anne Sexton

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%

Paul Celan (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

I don't have one

3 votes, 0.5%

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2 votes, 0.4%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.4%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.4%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

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2 votes, 0.4%

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2 votes, 0.4%

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2 votes, 0.4%

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Alfred Noyes

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1 vote, 0.2%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Victor Hugo (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

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Marin Sorescu (write-in)

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William McGonagall (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

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Dylan Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)

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