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Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 - 1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. 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 Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." Shelley's reputation fluctuated during the 20th century, but since the 1960s he has achieved increasing critical acclaim for the sweeping momentum of his poetic imagery, his mastery of genres and verse forms, and the complex interplay of sceptical, idealist, and materialist ideas in his work. Among his best-known works are "Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), "Adonais" (1821), the philosophical essay "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811), which his friend T. J. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Percy Bysshe Shelley is the 379th most popular writer (up from 387th in 2019), the 357th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 276th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Writer.

Percy Bysshe Shelley is most famous for his poem "Ozymandias" which is about a broken statue of a king.

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Among writers, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 379 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Salman Rushdie. After him are Margaret Mitchell, Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Alphonse de Lamartine.

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Among people born in 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 6. Before him are Pope Pius IX, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, John Herschel, and Nikolai Lobachevsky. After him are William II of the Netherlands, Karl Ernst von Baer, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Johann Peter Eckermann. Among people deceased in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 5. Before him are William Herschel, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, and Antonio Canova. After him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 357 out of 8,785. Before him are Vivienne Westwood (1941), Frank Williams (1942), John Edward Gray (1800), Edward Gibbon (1737), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), and George Michael (1963). After him are Jimmy Page (1944), Henrietta of England (1644), Laurence Olivier (1907), Ritchie Blackmore (1945), Frank Whittle (1907), and Richard of Cornwall (1209).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Percy Bysshe Shelley ranks 35. Before him are Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), Roald Dahl (1916), John Keats (1795), and Jane Hawking (1944). After him are Christopher Marlowe (1564), William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), and Philip Larkin (1922).

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