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Shelley is a major figure of the Romantic literary movement that lasted from the end of the 18th century to the 1850s. To gain a holistic view of his works, students should consider the works of other Romantics including Lord Byron, John Keats, Thomas Love Peacock, and Mary Shelley.
It would also be helpful to consider poets and writers whose work Shelley heavily influenced. This includes Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, and W.B. Yeats.
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The Question and Answer section for Percy Shelley: Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
P.B Shelley as a Revolutionary Poet
The French Revolution as one of the most influential event in the late 18th century. Though P.B Shelley did see the French revolution but he was influenced because he was deeply influenced by William Godwin and...
It is personified both as a "Destroyer" and a "Preserver". It is seen as a great power of nature that destroys in order to create, that kills the unhealthy and the decaying to make way for the new and the fresh.
In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley calls the spring wind the “azure sister” of the West Wind. “Azure” an older word for the color blue. Shelly uses it here in relation to the blue skies that often come with the arrival of spring.
