Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) - English poet, he was a humanist and a
Platonist who rejected all conventions which he thought stifled human
freedom. After the suicide of his estranged first wife, he eloped with Mary
Wollstonecraft (Shelley) who later wrote the classic, "Frankenstein."
Ozymandias (1818) - This well-known sonnet was first published in Leigh
Hunt's "Examiner." Opening lines: I met a traveller from an antique land /
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ...
