Percy Bysshe Shelley — a remark

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“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others.”

Presenting imagination as the foundation of moral sympathy. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

About Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

4 August 1792–8 July 1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, the Shelley family home near Horsham in Sussex, and died on 8 July 1822, drowned in the Gulf of Spezia off the Italian coast before he had reached his thirtieth birthday. The extraordinary compression of his life has encouraged a legend of Shelley as the…

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