None of Shelley's work so interestingly combines autobiography with myth-making, erotic passion with Platonist ideals. Whatever else may be said about his feelings for the convent-girl Emilia Viviani, they brought out in him poetry of astonishing intensity and power.

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For nearly two months after the death of Keats, 23 February, 1821, Shelley appears to have remained in ignorance of the event: he knew it on or before 19 April. The precise date when he began his Elegy does not seem to be recorded: one may suppose it to have been in the latter half of May. On 5 June he wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Gisborne: 'I have been engaged these last days in composing a poem on the death of Keats, which will shortly be finished; and I anticipate the pleasure of reading it to you, as some of the very few persons who will be interested in it and understand it. It is a highly wrought piece of art, and perhaps better, in point of composition, than anything I have written.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced /'p??s? 'b?? '??l?/)[1] was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in 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 are long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonaïs, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life.

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Product Description: The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824. The poem was written in 78 ottava rima stanzas during the period when Prometheus Unbound and The Cloud were written and reflects similar themes...read more

Product Description: The Revolt of Islam (1818) is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. The poem was originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century by Charles and James Ollier in December 1817...read more

Product Description: The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. He modelled the poem, written in terza rima, on Petrarch’s Trionfi and Dante’s Divine Comedy...read more

Product Description: The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1819) is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cenci (in particular, Beatrice Cenci, pronounced CHEN-chee)...read more

Product Description: This collection brings together the complete essays of one of the major English Romantic poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Defence Of Poetry, A Philosophical View Of Reform, A Vindication Of Natural Diet, Essay On The Literature, The Arts, And The Manners Of The Athenians, On A Future State, On Life, On Love, On The Punishment Of Death, On The Symposium, Or Preface To The Banquet Of Plato, Speculations On Metaphysics, Speculations On Morals, The Necessity Of Atheis...read more

Product Description: Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novella by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author’s name, as ”by P.B.S.”. The first of Shelley’s two early, Gothic novellas, it outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge...read more

Product Description: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death...read more