Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Mask of Anarchy

Political poem condemning violence and advocating for human freedom

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet whose Ode to the West Wind and Prometheus Unbound articulate a visionary radicalism and lyrical intensity. He drowned at 29 but his influence on subsequent poetry was enormous.

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