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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822 / Horsham / England)
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Shelley, born the heir to rich estates and the son of an Member of Parliament, went to University College, Oxford in 1810, but in March of the following year he and a friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, were both expelled for the suspected authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism.
In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook and, one year later, went with her and her older sister first to Dublin, then to Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six months into 1813. However, by 1814, and with the birth of two children, their marriage had collapsed and Shelley eloped once again, this time with Mary Godwin.
Along with Mary's step-sister, ... more »
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''Sun-girt City! thou hast been
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Lines Written among the Euganean Hills (l. 76-79). . . The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley....
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey,''
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''Nothing in the world is single;
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All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?''
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''My own, my human mind, which passively
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Mont Blanc (l. 37-40). . . The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) Th...
Now renders and receives fast influencings,
Holding an unremitting interchange
With the clear universe of things around;''
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''Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Mont Blanc (l. 49-52). . . The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) Th...
Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.—''
percy shelly is the greatest poet of all time. His choice of words and the metaphors portrayed are fantastic. If you really want to read some of his greatest thoughts then read his fragments on this page
Shelley, though largely unacknowledged then and now, is one of the greats. A better poet than Byron and far more prolific and wide-ranging and imaginative than John Keats, for all his loveliness.
Please read my poem 'Seashells From The Seashore' about him and his struggle for recognition.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an amazing poet and the more I read his poetry the more I realized
his words and thoughts were from the other side, the musical heavens! Percy Bysshe Shelley
inspired me to write poetry and not be afraid to write what I feel. Thank-you Percy Bysshe Shelley
for sharing your talents to the world! Elizabeth Fontaine Grieco
Your wife was a harlot