Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thematic analysis of "Ozymandias"

Critical views on "Ozymandias." Anne Janowitz on the 19th-century interest in Egyptology ; Albert C. Labriola on the art of sculpture in the poem ; William Freedman on multiple identities of the narrative voice ; Kelvin Everest on the traveler's dilemma ; Desmond King-Hele on the ravages of time in the poem

Thematic analysis of "To a skylark"

Critical views on "To a skylark." William A. Ulmer on the contrary nature of "joy" ; Parks C. Hunter Jr. on the universal ideas within classical forms ; Diana Hendry on the uncertainty of Shelley's "bodiless bird" ; Nicholas Meihuizen on the sympathetic relationship between man and birds ; Nathan Cervo on spirit and matter ; Harold Bloom on Shelley's farewell to the invisible powers of nature

Thematic analysis of "Ode to the west wind"

Critical views on "Ode to the west wind." François Jost on the poem's complex genre ; Jennifer Wagner on the importance of the reader ; Edward Duffy on the poem's historical context ; Simon Haines on the wind as breath and spirit ; G.K. Blank on the transformation of poetic anxiety ; Bryan Shelley on the wind as renewal

Thematic analysis of "Adonais"

Critical views on "Adonais." Neil Arditi on the poem as a response to Keats's critics ; Peter Sacks on the poem as a work of mourning ; James A.W. Heffernan on the myth of Keats's death ; Daniel Wilson on the poet as amateur director and the reader as spectator and actor ; Martha Banta on occult imagery ; Barry Magarian on Shelley's reworking of the elegiac genre

Thematic analysis of "The triumph of life"

Critical views on "The triumph of life." Karen A. Weisman on the elusive nature of truth ; David Quint on the significance of Rousseau ; Linda E. Marshall on the poem's complex imagery of light ; Daniel Hughes on the destructive connotations of the word "kindle" ; Fred L. Milne on the relevance of Shelley's "defence of poetry" ; John Morillo on the poem as Shelley's response to Southey.