Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was a British writer who is considered 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 recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." Shelley's reputation fluctuated during the 20th century, but in recent decades he has achieved increasing critical acclaim for the sweeping momentum of his poetic imagery, his mastery of genres and verse forms, and the complex interplay of sceptical, idealist, and materialist ideas in his work. Among his best-known works are "Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), "Adonais" (1821), the philosophical essay "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811), which his friend T. J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Bysshe Shelley has received more than 8,021,387 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Percy Bysshe Shelley is the 387th most popular writer (down from 272nd in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 212th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Writer.

Percy Bysshe Shelley is most famous for his poem "Ozymandias" which is about a broken statue of a king.