Percy Bysshe Shelley pocket was a small book of Keats' poetry. Upon hearing this, Byron (never one to give compliments) said of Shelley: "I never met a man who wasn't a beast in comparison to him" . The day after the news of his death reached England, the Tory newspaper "The Courier" printed: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned; "now" he knows whether there is God or no." A reclining statue of Shelley's body, depicted as washed up on the shore, created by sculptor Edward Onslow Ford at the behest of Shelley's daughter-in-law, Jane, Lady Shelley, is the centrepiece
Percy Bysshe Shelley Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein". Shelley is perhaps best known for classic poems such as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "Music, When Soft Voices Die", "The Cloud" and "The Masque of Anarchy." His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama "The Cenci" (1819) and long, visionary, philosophical poems such as "Queen Mab" (later reworked as "The Daemon of the World"), "Alastor", "The Revolt of Islam", "Adonaïs", "Prometheus Unbound" (1820)—widely considered to be his masterpiece—"Hellas: A Lyrical Drama" (1821), and his final, unfinished work, "The Triumph of Life" (1822).