Celebrating the Promethean Spirit of Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)

Profiles in Poetry

July 8th marks the date of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s unfortunate drowning in the Bay of Lerici, Italy. Despite the considerable sea of time that separates us from the age in which Shelley lived, the poet’s significance has by no means diminished. In our age of increasing cultural chaos, aggressive censorship, and rearing social anarchy, the Promethean spir…