Life and Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

ercy Bysshe Shelley ( /? p? rsi ? b li/2 4 August 1792 8 July 1822) was one of the major English romanticistic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with hind end Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classical anthology verse flora as Ozymandias, Ode to the double-u Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The masquerade costume of Anarchy, which be among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language.His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included tabby Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonais and the naked work The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were striking plays in five and quaternity acts respectively. Although he has typically been figured as a reluctant dramatist, he was hot about 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 uncompromising idealism67, unite with his strong disapproving voice, made him an absolute and much-denigrated figure during his life and afterward.Mark duad took particular aim at Shelley in In Defense of Harriet Shelley, where he lambasted Shelley for abandoning his large(predicate) wife and child to run mop up with the 16-year-old Mary Godwin. 8 Shelley never lived to see the consummation of his success and influence although some of his works were published, they were often suppressed upon publicatio n. 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 voice 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)