Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "On Love." The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX, edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. London, Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828, p. 48.
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.
