Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley is a biography written by John Addington Symonds that provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. The book explores Shelley's early life, his education at Eton and Oxford, his literary influences, and his relationships with other Romantic poets such as Lord Byron and John Keats. Symonds delves into Shelley's personal life, including his marriage to Mary Shelley, his political beliefs, and his controversial views on religion and society. The book also analyzes Shelley's major works, including Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, and Ode to the West Wind, and examines their themes and literary significance. Throughout the biography, Symonds provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Shelley, highlighting his strengths and weaknesses as a poet and a person. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the life and works of one of the most important poets of the Romantic era.A glimpse into the cottage at Great Marlow is afforded by a careless sentence of Leigh Hunt's. ""He used to sit in a study adorned with casts, as large as life, of the Vatican Apollo and the celestial Venus."" Fancy Shelley with his bright eyes and elf-locks in a tiny, low-roofed room, correcting proofs of ""Laon and Cythna"", between the Apollo of the Belvedere and Venus de' Medici, life-sized, and as crude as casts by Shout could make them!This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.