Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems
Index of Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet whose contemporaries included Keats and Byron. Although famous for his long work Prometheus Unbound, his genius also shines in shorter poems; you can read several of these on the EIL site:
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Percy Bysshe Shelley by Amelia Curran
oil on canvas, 1819 (NPG 1234)
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The poet’s wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was also a poet and author in her own right.
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You can read a biography of Shelley in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John Cousin.