Life and Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

ercy Bysshe Shelley ( /? p? rsi ? b li/2 4 August 1792 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest oral communication poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist bloody shame Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classic anthology meter works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The fancy dress 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 Queen Mab (later reworked as The dickens of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonais and the unfinished work The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. Although he has typically been figured as a reluctant dramatist, he was passionate about the theatre, and his plays continue to be performed today. He wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St.Irvyne (1811) and the short prose works The Assassins (1814), The Coliseum (1817) and Una Favola (1819). In 2008, he was credited as the co-author of the novel Frankenstein (1818) in a advanced edition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford and Random House in the U. S. entitled The Original Frankenstein, edited by Charles E. Robinson. 345 Shelleys unconventional lifetime and stout idealism67, combined with his strong disapproving voice, made him an authoritative and much-denigrated figure during his life and afterward.Mark Twain took particular aim at Shelley in In Defense of Harriet Shelley, where he lambasted Shelley for abandoning his pregnant wife and child to run absent with the 16-year-old Mary Godwin. 8 Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence although few of his works were published, they were often suppressed upon publication. He bec ame an idol of the next trine or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets.He was look up to by Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, William Butler Yeats, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. 9 Henry David Thoreaus civil disobedience and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhis peaceable resistance were apparently influenced and inspired by Shelleys non-violence in protest and policy-making action, although Gandhi does not include him in his list of mentors. (Wikipedia)