A Defence Of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayAccording to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be con …
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language.
On The Literature, The Arts, And The Manners Of The Athenians: A Fragment by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayThe period which intervened between the birth of Pericles and the death of Aristotle, is undoubtedly, whether considered in itself, o …
On The Symposium, Or Preface To The Banquet Of Plato: A Fragment by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayThe dialogue entitled The Banquet was selected by the translator as the most beautiful and perfect among all the works of Plato. [Foo …
On The Punishment Of Death: A Fragment by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayThe first law which it becomes a Reformer to propose and support, at the approach of a period of great political change, is the aboli …
Speculations On Metaphysics by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayI–THE MIND It is an axiom in mental philosophy, that we can think of nothing which we have not perceived. When I say that we can thin …
On Life In A Future State by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Story type: EssayLife and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us …