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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Series: The Great Poets
Narrator: Bertie Carvel
Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 03/03/2008
Category: Poetry - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Synopsis
Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonais, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.