Shelley Percy Bysshe: 82 books

Book cover of Shelley: Poems
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets.  A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley personified the richly various—and contradictory—energies...
Book cover of The Necessity of Atheism
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

"The Necessity of Atheism" is a treatise on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing while Shelley was a student at University College, Oxford. A copy of the first version was sent as a short tract signed enigmatically to all heads...
Book cover of The Necessity of Atheism
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019

Just expressing an atheist opinion out loud was enough to set the wheels of British justice in motion in the 19th century. But Shelley went beyond that, arguing that atheism was a necessary position — the only one that could be reasonably held. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was never one to hold...
Book cover of History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

This vintage book contains a fascinating account of a six week-long tour through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Also including letters describing a sail round the lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this fascinating and wonderfully-written account...
Book cover of Adonais
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

For nearly two months after the death of Keats, 23 February, 1821, Shelley appears to have remained in ignorance of the event: he knew it on or before 19 April. The precise date when he began his Elegy does not seem to be recorded: one may suppose it to have been in the latter half of May. On 5 June...
Book cover of The Masque of Anarchy - A Poem
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

This vintage book contains Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal 1819 poem, "Masque of Anarchy". The poem, though written in a relaxed and familiar manner, is highly characteristic of Shelly's other works. It has the usual ardour of his tone, the unbounded sensibility by which he combines the most...
Book cover of The Assassins (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Hailed as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language, Percy Bysshe Shelley was best-known for his verse. However, he also produced a number of acclaimed short prose works, and 'The Assassins' is charged with Shelley's thoughts on politics, life and existence. Many of the gothic romance...
Book cover of Adonais
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

"Adonais" represents the height of artistic achievement for nineteenth-century Romantic poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley's book-length elegy in the pastoral style mourns the loss of fellow poet John Keats in 495 remarkably accomplished lines. Shelley himself regarded "Adonais" as the best of his work, and...
Book cover of The Romantic Poets
by John Keats, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets. Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth,...
Book cover of Essays
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 27

Harvard Classics Volume 27

English Essays: Sidney To Macaulay

by Sir Philip Sidney, Golden Deer Classics, Ben Jonson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise...
Book cover of Prometheus ontboeid: Een lyrisch drama in vier bedrijven
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Field Place (Sussex), 4 augustus 1792 – in zee bij La Spezia, 8 juli 1822) was een Engels dichter uit de periode van de romantiek. Zijn korte leven wordt gemarkeerd door tegenstrijdigheden. Hij was afkomstig uit een rijke aristocratische familie. In zijn eerste jaar...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 18

Harvard Classics Volume 18

Modern English Drama

by John Dryden, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Contents: 1. All for Love, by John Dryden 2. The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3. She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith 4. The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Book cover of A Defence of Poetry (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

In this renowned work, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley expands on his celebrated statement that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” and assiduously and lyrically rebuts the assertion made in the essay “Four Ages of Poetry” (written by his contemporary Thomas Love Peacock) that poetry has no place in a world of technology and science.
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