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 a Country Churchyard" (1750). In French, perhaps the most famous elegy is "Le Lac" (1820) by Alphonse de Lamartine. "Elegy" (French: "élégie") may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature. A well-known example is the Élégie, Op. 10, by Jules Massenet. This was originally written for piano, as a student work; then he set it as a song; and finally it appeared as the "Invocation", for cello and orchestra, a section of his incidental music to Leconte de Lisle's "Les Érinnyes". Elegy In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, usually