Shelley, Percy

The individual moments of a person's life are lost forever when one dies--all we often have left is a jumble of images and anecdotes, filtered through the perceptions and memories of family members, friends, and others. But, for a biographer, sifting through these mounds of contradictory life-time evidence reveals gaps and holes in any knowledge...

Read "Hymn to Pan" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

"We stumble upon Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats on the heels of the Neoclassical era. We saw amazing wit and satire (with Pope and Swift) as a part of the last age, but the Romantic Period dawned with a different poetic in the air."

Music, When Soft Voices Die is a poem by Percy Shelley. Here's the full text of Shelley's work of poetry.

Read "Night" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex on August 4, 1792. He was the oldest son of Timothy Shelley, M.P., and Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley. He was born into an aristocratic family.

This collection of essays focuses on Shelley, Voltaire, Zelda Fitzgerald, and others, while including a radio-play, a ballet treatment, travelogue, and more.

The writers to whom these responses are directed range from Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid to Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, and many more.

Read "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).