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The Complete Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1839

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Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.

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Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of this
Themes
gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1830s1830sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
Mood
romanticromanticMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 944 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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