Literature

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS POETRY

(i) Shelley compared with some of his contemporaries: “As a poet,” says J. A. Symonds, “Shelley contributed a new quality to English literature— a quality of ideality, freedom, and audacity, which severe critics of other nations think we lack. Byron’s daring is a different region; his elemental worldliness and pungent satire do not liberate our energies or cheer us …

 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY BIOGRAPHY

(A) Life And WorksBorn: Field Place, Sussex, England,Date: August 4, 1792 Died: Off Viareggio, Italy, Date: July 8, 1822 Principal WorksPoems : Queen Mab, 1813; Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude,1816; The Revolt of Islam, 1818; Rosalind and Helen, 1819;Epipsychidion, 1821; Adonais, 1821; Hellas, 1822; PosthumousPoems, 18-4; Poetical works, 1839. Plays: The Cenci, 1820; Prometheus Unbound, 1820. Tracts and Studies: The Necessity of Atheism, 1811; An …