Life and Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

ercy Bysshe Shelley ( /? p? rsi ? b li/2 4 August 1792 8 July 1822) was unity of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The nove mention Mary Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most normal and critically acclaimed poems in the English language.His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonais and the unfinished work The run of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. Although he has typically been figured as a reluctant dramatist, he was passionate roughly the theatre, and his plays continue to be performed today. He wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St.Irvyne (1811) and the short prose works The Assassins (1814), The Coliseum (1817) and Una Favola (1819). In 2008, he was credited as the co-author of the novel Frankenstein (1818) in a new edition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford and Random House in the U. S. entitled The Original Frankenstein, edited by Charles E. Robinson. 345 Shelleys unconventional life and tough idealism67, combined with his strong disapproving voice, made him an authoritative and much-denigrated figure during his life and afterward.Mark Twain took particular aim at Shelley in In acknowledgment of Harriet Shelley, where he lambasted Shelley for abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run off with the 16-year-old Mary Godwin. 8 Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence although some of his works were published, they were a lot suppressed upon publication. He became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets.He was admired by Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, William pantryman Yeats, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. 9 Henry David Thoreaus civil disobedience and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhis passive resistance were apparently influenced and inspired by Shelleys non-violence in protest and political action, although Gandhi does not include him in his list of mentors. (Wikipedia)