Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) image source

Percy Bysshe Shelley texts in RAP

Poetry

To Wordsworth

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

The Mask of Anarchy

England in 1819

To a Skylark

Adonais

Prose

Preface to Prometheus Unbound

A Defence of Poetry

Pamphlet

The Necessity of Atheism

Shelley images in RAP

Ode to the West Wind manuscript - Image

Peterloo Massacre - image

Related essays in RAP

A Close Reading of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind

The Path of Shelley's 'Winged Thoughts'

Triptych for Ode to the West Wind-key

LEL vs. Shelley

P. B. Shelley life highlights:

-1811 marries

-Deserted his wife in 1816, and goes to the Continent with then 17 year old Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin

-Marries MWG after first wife's suicide

-Publishes lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound (1818-1819)

-1822 Drowned while sailing

info source

The Shelley Chronology

Other Shelley sites of interest:

P.B. Shelley Resouce Page

A Shelley Concordance

A Close Reading of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind

The Path of Shelley's 'Winged Thoughts'