Percy Bysshe Shelley: - He was born in Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England - He died on July 8, 1822 (aged 29) at Mediterranean Sea in Italy. - This English poet was an atheist and expelled from Oxford University in 1811 due to his publication of a pamphlet named “The necessity of Atheism”. - He believed that only revolution can change our society. So that he is called “Revolutionary Poet”. - He is also called “The poet of Hope and Regeneration”. - Shelly mourns over the death of John Keats in his famous elegy “Adonais”.
Great Works of P.B. Shelley: - A Defence of Poetry - A Philosophical View of Reform - Adonais - Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude - Epipsychidion - Hymn to Intellectual Beauty - Letter to Maria Gisborne - Mont Blanc - Ode to the West Wind - Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant - Ozymandias - Peter Bell the Third - Prometheus Unbound - Queen Mab - Rosalind and Helen - The Cenci - The Cloud - The Masque of Anarchy - The Necessity of Atheism - The Revolt of Islam - The Witch of Atlas - To a Sky-Lark