id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3081 Percy Bysshe Shelley - Wikipedia .html text/html 12116 1344 74 Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ (listen) BISH;[1][2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.[3] Harold Bloom calls him "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."[4] A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Browning, Swinburne, Hardy and Yeats.[5] It was hastily withdrawn after publication due to fears of prosecution for religious libel, and was re-edited and reissued as The Revolt of Islam in January 1818.[79] Shelley also published two political tracts under a pseudonym: A Proposal for putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom (March 1817) and An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Charlotte (November 1817)[80] In December he wrote "Ozymandias" as part of a competition with friend and fellow poet Horace Smith, which is considered to be one of his finest sonnets.[81][82] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3081.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3081.txt