Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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1. A nineteenth-century English poet; one of the leaders of romanticism. His poems include “To a Skylark,” “Ode to the West Wind,” and “Ozymandias.” Like John Keats, he died at an early age.

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Shelley's second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote Frankenstein.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, his books prohibited in the Ward family, 58.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, esq., his 'Queen Mab,' iii.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, an editor's error in his "Skylark," 157, 158; inappropriate Forman edition of, 11; read by young men, 111.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 14, 182, 338, 347, 348, 353-355, 356-359, 367, 368.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.