British literature "La Belle Dame sans Merci", "Ode to a Nightingale", "To Autumn". Percy Shelley, known to contemporaries for his radical politics and association with figures such as Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, was the third major romantic poet of the second generation. Generally regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, Shelley is perhaps best known for poems such as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark" and "Adonaïs", an elegy written on the death of Keats. Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of "Frankenstein"
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Gloucestershire" is metrically more inventive and written in a six-line stanza that terminates Gray's cross-rhymed quatrain with a couplet. In theme and tendency Shelley's poem closely resembles the setting of the Elegy but concludes that there is something appealing in death that frees it of terror. In the Victorian period, Alfred, Lord Tennyson adopted many features of the Elegy in his own extended meditation on death, "In Memoriam". He established a ceremonial, almost religious, tone by reusing the idea of the "knell" that "tolls" to mark the coming night. This is followed with the poet narrator looking through letters of