Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Romantic Poet

● Introduction: Percy Bysshe Shelley is considered a later Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and John Keats, he belonged to the second generation of Romantic poets. His work, which emerged in the early 19th century, followed the initial wave of Romanticism led by poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ■ Points of Shelley as a Romantic Poet: Shelley is a Romantic poet because his works show several characteristics of Romanticism: ● Love of Nature ● Imagination ● Melancholy ● Supernaturalism and Mysticism ● Beauty ● Innovation in Style and Form ☆ Love of Nature: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s appreciation for nature is evident throughout his poetry, reflecting a fundamental characteristic of Romantic poets. In “Mont Blanc,” Shelley pays tribute to the awe-inspiring presence of the natural landscape: "The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom." Here, the mountain is no...