Percy Bysshe Shelley On Love and Poetry

"Then will oppression's iron influence show;
The great man's comfort as the poor man's woe..."

The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8 July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia. After his body washed ashore near Viareggio, it was cremated according to the dictates of Italian law.

Shelley, perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly contradictory energies of his time....