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The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proved very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection ? and well read by leading actors. This anthology, containing poems that many can still recite, will undoubtedly prove among the top-sellers. The collection includes including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
1 pages, Audio CD
First published March 1, 2008
About the author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1,668 books1,422 followersWorks of Percy Bysshe Shelley, British romantic poet, include "To a Skylark" in 1820;
Prometheus Unbound
, the lyric drama; and "Adonais," an elegy of 1821 to John Keats.
The Cenci , work of art or literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley of 1819, depicts Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman.
People widely consider Percy Bysshe Shelley among the finest majors of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias , Ode to the West Wind , and The Masque of Anarchy . His major long visionary Alastor , The Revolt of Islam , and the unfinished The Triumph of Life .
Unconventional life and uncompromising idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley combined with his strong skeptical voice to make an authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations, the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and in other languages, such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy . Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and [authorm:Bertrand Russell] also admired him. Famous for his association with his contemporaries Lord Byron, he also married Mary Shelley, novelist.
The Cenci , work of art or literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley of 1819, depicts Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman.
People widely consider Percy Bysshe Shelley among the finest majors of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias , Ode to the West Wind , and The Masque of Anarchy . His major long visionary Alastor , The Revolt of Islam , and the unfinished The Triumph of Life .
Unconventional life and uncompromising idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley combined with his strong skeptical voice to make an authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations, the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and in other languages, such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy . Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and [authorm:Bertrand Russell] also admired him. Famous for his association with his contemporaries Lord Byron, he also married Mary Shelley, novelist.
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March 17, 2026
3,5 STARS ROUNDED UP
Bertie Carvel, THE MAN THAT YOU ARE 😙🤌🏻
that voice of yours belongs in a museum 👁️👄👁️
Bertie Carvel, THE MAN THAT YOU ARE 😙🤌🏻
that voice of yours belongs in a museum 👁️👄👁️
February 28, 2023
Poetry is wasted upon me. I just don't get it, and trying to get through this audiobook of a little over an hour was quite difficult for me. I'm sure Percy Bysshe Shelley is the bee's knees, but I doubt I try to delve into his poetry again after this attempt.
Book 2 of the FebRegency challenge. Unfortunately, I'm not going to get to the other two I wanted to read before the end of the month.
Book 2 of the FebRegency challenge. Unfortunately, I'm not going to get to the other two I wanted to read before the end of the month.
August 7, 2024
「I leave this notice on my door
For each accustomed visitor:—
“I am gone into the fields
To take what this sweet hour yields;—
Reflection, you may come tomorrow,
Sit by the fireside with Sorrow.—
You with the unpaid bill, Despair,—
You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care,—
I will pay you in the grave,—
Death will listen to your stave.」
For each accustomed visitor:—
“I am gone into the fields
To take what this sweet hour yields;—
Reflection, you may come tomorrow,
Sit by the fireside with Sorrow.—
You with the unpaid bill, Despair,—
You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care,—
I will pay you in the grave,—
Death will listen to your stave.」
September 9, 2025
Percy Bysshe Shelley was the most revolutionary poet of his generation and the English Romantic movement. Inspired by the French Revolution, works like "Ozymandias," "The Mask of Anarchy," and "Prometheus Unbound" embody his radical ideas and revolutionary spirit, challenging the status quo and calling for change through both nonviolent resistance and symbolic revolt, urging a transformation of society toward a more just and free world. Nuanced narration by Bertie Carvel articulates Shelley’s sublime genius.
Favorite Poems:
“Opening to ‘Queen Mab’”
“Mutability”
“To Wordsworth”
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“Ozymandias”
“Love’s Philosophy”
“The Mask of Anarchy”
“The Cloud”
“To a Skylark”
“To the Moon”
“One Word Is Too Oft Profaned”
“With a Guitar, to Jane”
Favorite Poems:
“Opening to ‘Queen Mab’”
“Mutability”
“To Wordsworth”
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“Ozymandias”
“Love’s Philosophy”
“The Mask of Anarchy”
“The Cloud”
“To a Skylark”
“To the Moon”
“One Word Is Too Oft Profaned”
“With a Guitar, to Jane”
August 16, 2021
4/5 Stars (%80/100)
Shelley is one of my favourite poets of all time mainly because of his famous poem "Ozymandias." Ever since I've read "Ozymandias," I continued to read everything related to him. I came across this audiobook by chance and it was a really good experience overall. There are a lot of poems in this collection including "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West," "To a Skylark," and "Adonais." Bertie Carvel is the narrator and even though I liked him, I think I would prefer someone with a deeper voice. Still, it is a good audiobook and most of Shelley's poems go unnoticed, except for "Ozymandias."
Shelley is one of my favourite poets of all time mainly because of his famous poem "Ozymandias." Ever since I've read "Ozymandias," I continued to read everything related to him. I came across this audiobook by chance and it was a really good experience overall. There are a lot of poems in this collection including "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West," "To a Skylark," and "Adonais." Bertie Carvel is the narrator and even though I liked him, I think I would prefer someone with a deeper voice. Still, it is a good audiobook and most of Shelley's poems go unnoticed, except for "Ozymandias."
August 18, 2020
Mostly bits and bites, plainly an LP originally and so rather short. What comes through most clearly from this selection is a) Shelley’s fondness for posturing, which to me lessens the value of his thought, and b) his sonic mastery of words and cadences, always in evidence even in the weakest material.
January 9, 2018
About 60 years since I last read Shelly and for got how good and underrated he was.
October 8, 2020
Some of Shelley's best-known works in an audiable.com collection --Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, and England in 1819. Read by Bertie Carvel.
August 12, 2021
I'll cop to crying by the end of "The Masque of Anarchy," even if I'm skeptical of the efficacy of Shelley's non-violent vision.
August 29, 2022
Shelley wasn't just a romantic, he was a rebel doing punk rock poetry over a hundred years before punk rock existed. Essential reading for progressive readers everywhere.
April 13, 2026
Five stars for the profound writings of an 1800’s f*ckboy, and for Bertie Carvel’s narration, which breathed such life into the words.
April 15, 2026
Bertie Carvel can read me poetry any day of the week
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