![]() These years in a conventional institution were not happy ones for Shelley, where his idealism and controversial philosophies were developing. ![]() Young Percy attended Sion House Academy before entering University College, Oxford, in 1804. He was the eldest of the seven children of Elizabeth Pilfold and Timothy Shelley, a country squire who would become baronet in 1815 on the death of his father. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Horsham, Sussex, England. His life and works are studied still and his influence lives on in the 21st century. Shelley found friendship with fellow poets John Keats and Lord George Gordon Byron as well as paving the way for future esteemed poets Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and William Butler Yeats. The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'-“To Mary” (1818) He also expressed profound tenderness and sympathy for humankind such as in “The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient” and deep love in poems dedicated to Mary O Mary dear, that you were here Other longer visionary works by Shelley include “The Revolt of Islam” and “Prometheus Unbound” (1820). Written in terza rima “Ode To The West Wind” (1820) is another of Shelley’s calls for revolution and change. Shelley often attracted criticism and controversy for his outspoken challenges to oppression, religion, and convention as in his political poem “The Masque of Anarchy” (1819), a critical look at the Peterloo massacre Rise like Lions after slumber The second-hand narration attempts to resurrect the once powerful king's might while the exotic setting of Egypt and desert sands helps illuminate the struggle between artist and subject. Probably his most famous short poem, “Ozymandias” was published in 1818. ![]() The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, ![]() Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownĪnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ![]()
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