Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar,” quoted Percy Bysshe Shelley in A Defence to Poetry. Of the poets from the English Romantic Period ( a period of love and admiration for the aesthetic portion of nature and the bond between nature and humanity ), Percy Bysshe Shelley ranked as one of the greatest. Although his life spanned but thirty years, he established himself through his works, and partly through his unique lifestyle, as both a great writer and poet. During his thirty years, he expressed himself as an atheist, satirist, radical, optimist, vegetarian, idealist, essayist, dramatist, translator, novelist, and a supporter of “free love.” Percy Bysshe Shelley possessed a desire for social and political reform and portrayed this in campaigns and writing pamphlets. He stressed for perfection of humanity and attempts at perfection and reason. He viewed man as good and society bad ( almost Marxist ) and thought it necessary to suppress institutions to make earth a “paradise.” His works included pamphlets, poetry, lyrics, and elegy.The first of seven children, Shelley was born August 4, 1792 in Field Place, Su
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