By Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oxford Editon (1914), eBook Provided by Pennsylvania State Univeristy

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822), A nineteenth-century English poet; one of the leaders of romanticism. His poems include “To a Skylark,” “Ode to the West Wind,” and “Ozymandias.” Like John Keats, he died at an early age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.

Shelley's second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote Frankenstein.

Asiaing Links:

Download The Complete Works: Volume One ( 1.62 MB), Volume Two (819 KB) and Volume Three (964 KB)

Personalities (Who2):

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

• Born: 4 August 1792  
• Birthplace: Near Sussex, England
• Died: 8 July 1822 (drowning)
• Best Known As: 19th century romantic poet

A radical young fellow, Percy Shelley was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 when he published The Necessity of Atheism. His early poems advocated social reform, reflecting the influence of the philosophical writings of William Godwin. He fell in love with Godwin's daughter Mary, who later gained fame as the author of Frankenstein. After Shelley's first wife committed suicide in 1816, Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin were married. Shelley was lost at sea in 1822, while sailing off the coast of Italy.

FOUR GOOD LINKS

• Complete Poetical Works
  Includes an extremely detailed biography from contemporary sources
• Neurotic Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  One-page biography focusing on Shelley's mental state
• Percey Shelley's Grave
  From the ever cheerful Findagrave.com
• Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  A few dozen poems and one essay about poetry

External Links:

• Trelawny Recovers Shelley's Body. Trelawny's account of searching for Shelley and his companions after the storm in which they perished.
• Trelawny Burns Shelley's Body. Trelawny's account of overseeing the exhumation and burning of Shelley's body.
• Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley at Project Gutenberg
• Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds, available freely at Project Gutenberg
• Selected Poems of Shelley
• A talk on Shelley's politics (MP3) by Paul Foot of the British Socialist Workers Party: part 1, part 2
• A pedigree of the Shelley family

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