Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 - 1822

About the Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the leading English romantic poets who had a strong feeling for individual liberty.

In The Library:

• author: A Philosophical View of Reform (1820)
• author: Posthumous Poems (1824)

Quotations:

• In Percy Shelley’s poem Liberty liberty is compared to a force of nature sweeping the globe, where “tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night” which will disappear in “the van of the morning light” (1824) (17 July, 2006)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley on the new Constitution of Naples which he hoped would be “as a mirror to make … blind slaves see” (1820) (8 October, 2007)
• Percy Shelley on the two types of property [1820] (23 April, 2013)