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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

—Beauty

Percy Bysshe
Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792–1822, English poet, b. Horsham, Sussex. He is ranked as one of the great English poets of the romantic period.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.

Pronunciation:

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WORKS: Complete Poetical Works
Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man.; Bartlett’s Shelley Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 53821 to 53976
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE: A Dream of the Unknown (Gold); A Lament (Gold); A widow bird sate mourning for her Love (Gold); Flight of Love (Gold); From the Arabic (OBEV); Hellas (OBEV); Hymn of Pan (OBEV); Hymn to the Spirit of Nature (Gold); I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden (Gold); Indian Serenade (OBEV); Invitation (Gold); Invitation (OBEV); Invocation (Gold); Lines (OBEV); Lines to an Indian Air (Gold); Love's Philosophy (Gold); Moon (OBEV); Music, when soft voices die (Gold); Music, when Soft Voices die (OBEV); Night (OBEV); Ode to the West Wind (Gold); Ode to the West Wind (OBEV); One word is too often profaned (Gold); Ozymandias of Egypt (Gold); Poet's Dream (Gold); Question (OBEV); Recollection (Gold); Remorse (OBEV); Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples (Gold); To —— (OBEV); To a Lady, with a Guitar (Gold); To a Skylark (Gold); To a Skylark (OBEV); To the Moon (Gold); To the Night (Gold); Written among the Euganean Hills, North Italy (Gold)
WRITINGS ABOUT SHELLEY: “Shelley”
Chapter by By C. H. Herford with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.

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