The Daemon of the World

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The book "The Daemon of the World," by Percy Bysshe Shelley is a poetry work that revolves around romance, life, and the universe. The author, Shelly, is one of the major English romantic poets with amazing works that resonate with people in love. She shares rhythmic poetry that makes you desire more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 4057664607195

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet. Born into a prominent political family, Shelley enjoyed a quiet and happy childhood in West Sussex, developing a passion for nature and literature at a young age. He struggled in school, however, and was known by his colleagues at Eton College and University College, Oxford as an outsider and eccentric who spent more time acquainting himself with radical politics and the occult than with the requirements of academia. During his time at Oxford, he began his literary career in earnest, publishing Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) and St. Irvine; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (1811) In 1811, he married Harriet Westbrook, with whom he lived an itinerant lifestyle while pursuing affairs with other women. Through the poet Robert Southey, he fell under the influence of political philosopher William Godwin, whose daughter Mary soon fell in love with the precocious young poet. In the summer of 1814, Shelley eloped to France with Mary and her stepsister Claire Claremont, travelling to Holland, Germany, and Switzerland before returning to England in the fall. Desperately broke, Shelley struggled to provide for Mary through several pregnancies while balancing his financial obligations to Godwin, Harriet, and his own father. In 1816, Percy and Mary accepted an invitation to join Claremont and Lord Byron in Europe, spending a summer in Switzerland at a house on Lake Geneva. In 1818, following several years of unhappy life in England, the Shelleys—now married—moved to Italy, where Percy worked on The Masque of Anarchy (1819), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Adonais (1821), now considered some of his most important works. In July of 1822, Shelley set sail on the Don Juan and was lost in a storm only hours later. His death at the age of 29 was met with despair and contempt throughout England and Europe, and he is now considered a leading poet and radical thinker of the Romantic era.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Daemon of the World

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4057664607195

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     Nec tantum prodere vati,

     Quantum scire licet. Venit aetas omnis in unam

     Congeriem, miserumque premunt tot saecula pectus.

     LUCAN, Phars. v. 176.

       How wonderful is Death,

       Death and his brother Sleep!

     One pale as yonder wan and horned moon,

       With lips of lurid blue,

     The other glowing like the vital morn,                        5

       When throned on ocean's wave

       It breathes over the world:

     Yet both so passing strange and wonderful!

     Hath then the iron-sceptred Skeleton,

     Whose reign is in the tainted sepulchres,                    10

     To the hell dogs that couch beneath his throne

     Cast that fair prey? Must that divinest form,

     Which love and admiration cannot view

     Without a beating heart, whose azure veins

     Steal like dark streams along a field of snow,               15

     Whose outline is as fair as marble clothed

     In light of some sublimest mind, decay?

       Nor putrefaction's breath

     Leave aught of this pure spectacle

       But loathsomeness and ruin?—                               20

       Spare aught but a dark theme,

     On which the lightest heart might