Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Birthday: August 4, 1792

Birthplace: Horsham, England, UK

Death Date: July 8, 1822

Age at death: 29 years old

Sign: Leo

About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English poet. He was a romantic and he is regarded as one of the most important lyric and epic poets of all time. He belonged to a circle of very significant artists of his era, such as Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock and Mary Shelley.

His Highlights

Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Ozymandias, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud, The Masque of Anarchy, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, Prometheus Unbound, Queen Mab, The Cenci.

His Personal Life

He was married 2 times. The first time to Harriet Westbrook and the second to Mary Shelley, the author of the classic novel "Frankenstein".

Percy Bysshe Shelley Photo Gallery

Title

A map of the 1814 and 1816 journeys taken by Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Based on the map found in The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Vol. 8. Ed. Jeanne Moskal. London: William Pickering, 1996, pg. 10. The 1814 trip is represented by a dotted line and the 1816 trip is represented by a solid line. Green dots indicate towns visited or stayed at during the 1816 trip, which ended in a three-month stay at Lake Geneva. Red dots indicate towns visited or stayed at during the 1814 trip. Black dots indicate towns not visited but perhaps helpful to the reader. The source map does not indicate what route the Shelleys used on the return trip to England for the 1816 trip.

Author

Awadewit

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License

CC BY-SA 3.0

Title

Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound, oil on canvas. Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy.

Author

Joseph Severn

Source

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License

Public domain

Title

Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (died 1883). See source website for additional information.

Author

After Amelia Curran

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License

Public domain

Title

Portrait of Mary Shelley

Author

Richard Rothwell

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaryShelley.jpg.jpeg

License

Public domain

Famous quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.Percy Bysshe Shelley

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet