The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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