Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet - Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonaïs, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.
INCLUDED IN The Great Poets - Percy Bysshe Shelley
|The opening lines from Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
|Mutability
|To Wordsworth
|Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
|Ozymandias
|Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples
|from `Prometheus Unbound'
|The Indian Serenade
|Ode to the West Wind
|Song to The Men of England
|Sonnet: England in 1819
|The Mask of Anarchy
|The Cloud
|To A Skylark
|from Epipsychidion
|To the Moon
|A Lament
|One word is too often profaned
|Chorus from Hellas
|Concluding stanzas from Adonais
|With A Guitar, To Jane
|Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
|To Jane: The Invitation
|Time
|Lines: `When the lamp is shattered'
|Music, When Soft Voices Die
|To Jane: The Recollection
