Percy Bysshe Shelley: Quick Facts

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Born	August 4, 1792 • England
Died	July 8, 1822 (aged 29) • Mediterranean Sea • Italy
Notable Works	“A Defence of Poetry” • “A Philosophical View of Reform” • “Adonais” • “Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude” • “Epipsychidion” • “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” • “Letter to Maria Gisborne” • “Mont Blanc” • “Ode to the West Wind” • “Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant” • “Ozymandias” • “Peter Bell the Third” • “Prometheus Unbound” • “Queen Mab” • “Rosalind and Helen” • “The Cenci” • “The Cloud” • “The Masque of Anarchy” • “The Necessity of Atheism” • “The Revolt of Islam” • “The Witch of Atlas” • “To a Sky-Lark”
Movement / Style	Romanticism
Notable Family Members	spouse Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • poetry