The Complete Poetical Works of "Percy Bysshe Shelley"

The Complete Poetical Works of "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY contains dozens of poems by noted English Romantic poet Percy Shelley.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an English poet and writer; he is regarded as one of the most important English Romantic poets. Born to a wealthy family, Shelley had a troubled youth. His studies at Eton were poor, and at nineteen he eloped with a 16-year old. He later abandoned his first wife and married Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of FRANKENSTEIN. Shelley drowned in Italy just before his thirtieth birthday.

"As a love of truth is the only motive which actuates the Author of this little tract, he earnestly entreats that those of his readers who may discover any deficiency in his reasoning, or may be in possession of proofs which his mind could never obtain, would offer them, together with their objections to the Public, as briefly, as methodically, as plainly as he has taken the liberty of doing."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism

"There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism