Shelley’s Position in English Poetry. Shelley does not belong to the same rank as Shakespeare or Milton. He has neither Shakespeare’s sweeping vision and intimate knowledge of human nature and his genial and sunshiny humour, nor Milton’s puissant and splendid imagination, workmanship and grand style. Like Shakespeare he has never explored the recesses of the human heart or the motive-springs of human will or sounded the … Continue reading Shelley’s Position in English Poetry.