Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem, with Notes. P.B. Shelley, 1813, p. 168.
Historians have always been interested in Jefferson’s line of thought which allowed for the dissolution of marriage for no other grounds than lack of happiness. It forsaged his later views on the dissolution of the American union with Great Britain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Browning, Swinburne, Hardy and Yeats.
