Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley

1792 - 1822

Titles on this disk:

author: Posthumous Poems

Quotations:

(8 October, 2007) Percy Bysshe Shelley on the new Constitution of Naples which he hoped would be “as a mirror to make … blind slaves see” (1820)
(17 July, 2006) In Percy Shelley’s poem Liberty liberty is compared to a force of nature sweeping the globe, where “tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night” which will disappear in “the van of the morning light” (1824)

About this person:

Shelley was one of the leading English romantic poets who had a strong feeling for individual liberty.