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A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Attribution: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), British poet. A Defence of Poetry (written 1821, published 1840).

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Titles by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

• Adonais
• Ode to the West Wind
• Ozymandias
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romantic Era

Salem on History:

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

Encyclopedia:

• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)

Literary Criticism:

• The Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Percy Bysshe Shelley is born
• Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems
• Percy Bysshe Shelley dies