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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Birth: 1792-08-04 , Horsham
Death: 1822-07-08 , Golfo de La Spezia
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a prominent English Romantic poet, known for his lyrical, passionate, and often radical verse. Alongside contemporaries like Lord Byron and John Keats, he is considered one of the most influential poets of the second generation of English Romanticism. His poetry frequently explores themes of political liberty, social justice, nature, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and life, often infused with a revolutionary spirit and a yearning for an idealized world.
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us—visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower.

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty [1816], st. 1

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