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Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) 1.

Major English Romantic poet and finest lyric poet. Most famous for classic anthology verse works.

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Places of birth and death: Born in Horsham, England. Died in Italy.

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Literary movement: Romanticism

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First Writing: Zastrozzi (1810) – a Gothic novel.

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Last poem: The Cloud (1822)

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Classic anthology verse works: Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, The Masque of Anarchy

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Long visionary poems: Prometheus Unbound, Alastor (The Spirit of Solitude), Adonais, Queen Mab, Mont Blank

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Unfinished writing: The Triumph of Life

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Article: Lines to an Indian Air

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Best known for: To a Skylark

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Dramatic plays: Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci (five acts), Hellas (lyrical drama)

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Novels: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne

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Ballad: The Devil's Walk: A Ballad

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Music: In 1852, German composer Robert Schumann set Shelley's poem "The Fugitives"

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He became an idol of the next two or three generations of poets, including the important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as Lord Byron, Henry David Thoreau, William Butler Yeats, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and poets in other languages such as Jan Kasprowicz, Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy.

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He was admired by Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Isadora Duncan, and Upton Sinclair. He was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife.

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Three children survived Shelley: Ianthe and Charles, his daughter and son by Harriet. In 2008 the Johns Hopkins University Press published James Bieri's 856-page one-volume biography, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography.

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