The Revolt of Islam (1818) - This is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. - The poem was originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Born: Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. - Death: July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]). - English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. - Shelley was a rebellious youth who was expelled from Oxford in 1811 for refusing to admit authorship of The Necessity of Atheism. - His first major poem, Queen Mab (1813), is a utopian political epic revealing his progressive social ideals.
Best Works: - Ode to the West Wind - Ozymandias - Music, To a Skylark - The Cloud - The Mask of Anarchy