Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."

4 August 1792

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Crystal Bowersox • Don S. Davis • Fritz Gause • Hedda Sterne • Mary Decker • Terry Campese • Wang Hao (chess player)

Born in the same month (August 1792): Charles Grandison Finney • John Russell, 1st Earl Russell • Manuel Oribe