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The Major Works
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured.
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Paperback, 845 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published July 10th 2003)
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Shelley often gets overlooked because of his more famous social set, but the man who is immortalized as a drowned sailor at Oxford wrote in my opinion the most technically rich and innovative poetry of the Romantic era. Like all Romantics, Shelley is verbose, but look beyond "Mutability" to find lyrical experimentation juxtaposed with complex philosophical arguments.
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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 a...more
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