Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley by Fiona Sampson
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory -- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. -- To
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Romantic literature.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571274307 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571274307 |
| Title | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Author | Fiona Sampson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |