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Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet, 1792–1822. Explained quotes.

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About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a radical English poet, expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet on atheism. He married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the future author of Frankenstein, and spent his last years in Italy, where he drowned in a sailing accident at 29.

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  • “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    Ozymandias, 1818
  • “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
    Ode to the West Wind, 1820