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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822; pronounced /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Alastor, Adonaïs, The Revolt of Islam, and the unfinished work The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. He wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811) and the short works The Assassins (1814) and The Coliseum (1817). Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong disapproving voice, made him an authoritative and much-denigrated figure during his life and afterward. Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence. Some of his works were published, but they were often suppressed upon publication. Up until his death, with approximately 50 readers as his audience, it is said he made no more than 40 pounds from his writings. He became an idol of the next three or even four generations of poets, including the important Vic
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Shelley - A Selection
The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Vincent Price Performs Percy Bysshe Shelley - A Selection
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The Very Best of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Listen To Britain
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LibriVox Weekly Poetry
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Poem of the Day
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The Voice of Poetry (1939)
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Words Of Love
Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose
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The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Abridged Fiction)
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Poem of the Day from the Poetry Foundation