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The Great Poets – Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Great Poets – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Narrator
Bertie Carvel
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Publish Date
1 March 2008
Run Time
1 hour 18 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Poetry
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Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonaïs, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.

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Author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Narrator
Bertie Carvel
Duration
1 hour 18 minutes
Release Date
1 March 2008
ISBN
9789629546724
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Genre
Poetry

Synopsis

Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonaïs, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.

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