Selected Poetry: Poems (Poetry Library, Penguin)

Isabel Quigly, Percy Shelley

ISBN 10: 0140585044 / ISBN 13: 9780140585049

Published by Penguin Classics 25/04/1985, 1985

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poetry: Poems (Poetry Library, Penguin)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics 25/04/1985
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140585044
• ISBN 13: 9780140585049
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In spirit, Percy Shelley was perhaps the most essentially romantic poet of his age. Intense, idealistic, personal, his is the poetry of youth. His brief, impetuous life aroused great controversy, and, like Byron, he lives on outside his verse.
 
Shelley’s work has been criticized for its undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially he was a poet of ideas, and in his search for truth and original human perfection, Shelley was inspired as much by the Greek poets and philosophers, particularly Plato, as by the radicalism of his own age. Above all, his great gift was his lyricism, and his verse comes as near to music as poetry can. As the poet Kathleen Raine said, “In his art if not in his life, Shelley was able to soar, to give expression to those dreams and visions which, continually broken by reality, are inextinguishable in the human spirit.”

From the Back Cover

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly various- and contradictory- energies of his time. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley gave voice to English romanticism's deepest aspirations.