Percy Bysshe Shelley

Known for

Ode to the West Wind, Ozymandias, radical Romantic idealism

Biography

English Romantic poet and radical political thinker, married to novelist Mary Shelley, who drowned in a storm off the Italian coast at just 29.

A well-known line

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" (Ozymandias)

Major works

• Ozymandias
• Ode to the West Wind
• Prometheus Unbound