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.

Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:

• Percy Bysshe Shelley on a force of nature sweeping the globe
• Percy Bysshe Shelley on the two types of property
• Percy Bysshe Shelley on the new Constitution of Naples which he hoped would be “as a mirror to make … blind slaves see”
• In Percy Shelley’s poem Liberty, liberty is compared to a force of nature sweeping the globe

Titles from Percy Bysshe Shelley:

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