Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD
- EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
- FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON
- From The Witch of Atlas
- JULIAN AND MADDALO [Extract]
- LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS
- MONT BLANC.
- ODE TO NAPLES
- ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES
- ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA
- ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY
- OZYMANDIAS
- PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES
- ROME AND NATURE [Fragment]
- SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND
- STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES
- THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO
- THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA
- TO IRELAND
- TO ITALY [A Fragment]
- TO THE NILE
Shelley was one of the archetypal Romantic poets. He was born in Sussex and educated at Eton and University College, Oxford. He published his first novel in 1810 and was expelled from Oxford in1811 for an atheist pamphlet. Soon he was writing full time and his output includes some of the greatest lyric poetry in English, and masterpieces of descriptive poetry of place, like Ozymandias. Shelley drowned while sailing along the Italian coast from Leghorn to his home in Lerici.
The great Romantic Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley
