Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Percy Bysshe Shelley" by John Addington Symonds

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime but was renowned after his untimely passing. In this book, Symonds honors Shelley with a biography from his birth through to his last days spent in Italy, to give readers a well-rounded look at this important contributor to literature.