“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world.”

English Romantic poet · 1792 – 1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet, author of Ozymandias, Adonais and Prometheus Unbound, and a leading voice of Romanticism.

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