Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet of the early nineteenth century, known for lyrical verse and radical politics.
His major works include "Ozymandias," "Prometheus Unbound," and "Ode to the West Wind." He drowned at twenty-nine off the Italian coast.
Married to Mary Shelley, author of *Frankenstein*.
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