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Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 - 1822
Nationality:
English
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Shelley was one of the leading English romantic poets who had a strong feeling for individual liberty.
Titles:
- Author: BOLL 51: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Liberty” (1810-22)
- Author: Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 2 vols. (1906)
- Author: Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley vol. 1 (1906)
- Author: Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley vol. 2 (1906)
- Author: Philosophical View of Reform (1820)
- Author: Posthumous Poems (1824)
Quotations:
- In Percy Shelley's poem <em>Liberty</em> 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)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on the new Constitution of Naples which he hoped would be "as a mirror to make ... blind slaves see" (1820)
- Percy Shelley on the two types of property [1820]