Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

Listen and read as much as you want
Over 400 000+ titles
Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
Easy to cancel anytime

Subscribe now

Try for free

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary
ISBN: 9781783717033

By
- Jacqueline Mulhallen
Publisher
- Pluto Press

Try for free

Series: 1 of 17
Language: English
Format
Category: Biographies

Percy Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. This biography of emphasises the political, revolutionary side of his dramatic life.

Shelley has long been revered for his poems To A Skylark and The Mask of Anarchy, but this was not always the case. During his short and tragic life he was regarded with loathing as an immoral atheist and his work received damning reviews as a result.

His was a story of extremes - his radical ideas were unusual as he was the son of a wealthy landowner and set to become a Whig MP. Today, a focus on his belief in sexual freedom and vegetarianism often eclipses his informed internationalist and revolutionary politics.

Admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats and Karl Marx, Shelley's legacy remains with us today - his words have been used by popular movements from the Chartists and the Suffragettes to Tiananmen Square, the Poll Tax protesters and modern Greek solidarity movements.

Release date

Ebook: 20 October 2015