Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), English romantic poet whose work reflects his revolutionary political idealism and his strong faith in the spiritual power of the imagination. It includes long narrative poems, such as Queen Mob (1813), The Revolt of Islam (1818), and Epipsychidion (1821); the verse drama Prometheus Unbound (1820); and such famous lyrics as “Ode to the West Wind” (1819) and “To a Skylark” (1820). He was drowned in a boating accident in Italy, were he had settled with his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft.