1853 The Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Antiquarian Poetry Book

The Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Published by Edward Moxon: London 1853

"Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."