Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major Romantic poet and thinker of the pre-Darwinian 19th century. He was together a prodigy and a rebel, an English gentleman and an advocate of free love. Percy Shelley wanted to live according to his values but was cast away by his family and tragically died in 1822 at the age of 29 when his sailing boat sank off the coast of Viareggio, Italy.

Originally written in French in 1923, Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley is a well-documented upbeat biopic of the genius poet brought up to date by this excellent new translation by Alix Daniel, helped by audacious illustrations from Anwot.

An addictive and often harrowing read!