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"
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley is an unfinished posthumous biography of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley that was written by his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg. The first two of the four planned volumes were released in 1858 to largely unfavourable reviews. Though a few friends of Percy Shelley enjoyed the book, many critics attacked the book for being poorly edited and for portraying Shelley negatively. Though more volumes were planned, they were never published because of the Shelley family's objections to Hogg's treatment of him. Hogg had previously published "Shelley at Oxford"