Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's the birthday of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, (books by this author) born in Sussex, England (1792). One of his most famous poems is "Ozymandias," which he composed in 1818 as part of a sonnet-writing competition against his friend Horace Smith, who wrote a similarly themed sonnet. Shelley's famous poem begins:
"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies …"
Shelley was the 18th-century equivalent of what today might be called a "trust fund baby": His father was rich, landed, a member of the aristocracy and of Parliament, and had a huge inheritance set aside for his young son. Shelley went to prestigious English schools, but though he was rich, he was not at all popular. In fact, his high school classmates went out of their way to torment him: They concocted what they called "Shelly-baits," where they ganged up on him, snatched his schoolbooks from his arms, tore at his clothes until he started screaming and crying, and then let him go for the day, only to repeat the ordeal the next.
He enrolled at Oxford University. He almost never attended class, but he sat in his room and read all day, sometimes 16 hours a day. He wrote a Gothic novel while he was there, Zastrozzi (1810) — he was 18 when it was published — and then the next year, he wrote a pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism." The deans got a hold of the pamphlet, summoned and questioned him, and expelled him from Oxford. His rich, respectable father showed up at the school to intervene on his son's behalf. Oxford's deans gave Shelley the option of staying at university if he recanted the views that had gotten him in trouble. He refused, and got in a fight with his father over it.
A few months later, the 19-year-old Shelley eloped to Scotland with a 16-year-old girl, the daughter of a English pub owner. For this, his father disinherited him. They lived a nomadic life. He spent time in Ireland trying to get peasants to revolt. His marriage was not a happy one, and he often traveled alone abroad to escape his wife. Three years after eloping, he abandoned his pregnant wife and their toddler son. He ran off with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who would eventually become his wife, Mary Shelley, and the author of Frankenstein.
He and Mary and her stepsister took off for Europe, settling in Switzerland. But within weeks, they were homesick and out of money, and so they headed back to England. Mary's stepsister, Claire, had started a love affair with the poet Lord Byron, but Byron had lost interest in her. Byron and Percy Shelley became good friends, and in many ways, Byron was Shelley's muse: Their conversations helped inspire Shelley to write prolific amounts of poetry.
Still now only in his 20s, Shelley continued to write lots of poetry. He wrote "Adonis," an elegy for his friend John Keats; "Prometheus Unbound," a drama in verse; and The Cenci, a tragedy. A month shy of his 30th birthday, he drowned in his schooner, the Don Juan, which during a storm sank between Livorno and Lerici. His decomposed, fish-eaten body washed ashore, and because of quarantine laws, it had to be cremated. Shelley's ashes were placed at Rome's Cemetery for Non-Catholic Foreigners, near an ancient pyramid replica and near the grave of his friend, poet John Keats.
Percy Shelley said: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
And, "Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame."
And he wrote,
"Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle —
Why not I with thine?"
Notable Books by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Selected Poems & Prose (BUY) Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems “Prometheus Unbound” and “Adonais,” an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include “Ozymandias,” “To a Skylark,” “Mont Blanc,” and “Ode to the West Wind.” This comprehensive and informative new edition collects his best poetry and prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political, personal, visionary, and idealistic.
Shelly's Poetry & Prose (BUY) This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised.
Selected Poems featured on The Writer's Almanac:
To a Singer - Listen
The Dreariest Journey - Listen
Good Night - Listen
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