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Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792 - 1822)

Index to poems

  1. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
  2. Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
  3. And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
  4. Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
  5. Art thou pale for weariness
  6. The Cloud
  7. England in 1819
  8. Epipsychidion
  9. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
  10. Hellas: Chorus
  11. Hymn of Pan
  12. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  13. The Indian Serenade
  14. Julian and Maddalo
  15. A Lament
  16. Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
  17. Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
  18. Lines: "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
  19. Lines: The cold earth slept below
  20. Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
  21. Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
  22. Mutability
  23. Ode to the West Wind
  24. One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
  25. Ozymandias
  26. Prometheus Unbound
  27. Prometheus Unbound
  28. Queen Mab: Part VI
  29. The Question
  30. Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
  31. Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
  32. Time
  33. Time Long Past
  34. To ----
  35. To a Skylark
  36. To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling"
  37. To Night
  38. To the Moon
  39. The Triumph of Life
  40. The Two Spirits: An Allegory
Biography: 
  • O'Neill, Michael. "Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2009.
Given Name: 
Percy Bysshe
Family Name: 
Shelley
Pseudonym(s): 
Hermit of Marlow
Birth Date: 
August 4, 1792
Death Date: 
July 8, 1822
Nationality: 
English
Family Relations: 
father : Timothy Shelley
mother : Elizabeth Shelley
sister : Elizabeth Shelley
wife : Harriet Shelley (from 28 Aug. 1811)
daughter : Ianthe Esdaile
son : Charles Bysshe Shelley
wife : Mary Shelley (from 30 Dec. 1816)
son : William Shelley
daughter : Clara Shelley
son : Percy Florence Shelley
grandfather : Bysshe Shelley
cousin : Harriet Grove

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English
Greek
Literary Period: 
Romantic
Literary Movement: 
Unknown

Illness

Cause of Death: 
Drowning
Buried At: 
Cremated remains in the protestant cemetery at Rome; heart at St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset
First RPO Edition: 
1997