Percy Bysshe Shelley

Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical, and poet--Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognized as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including "Ozymandias," "The Mask of Anarchy," and "To a Skylark," as well as excerpts from "Prometheus Unbound" and "Adonaïs."