The opening lines from Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
Mutability
To Wordsworth
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples
from ‘Prometheus Unbound’
The Indian Serenade
Ode to the West Wind
Song to The Men of England
Sonnet: England in 1819
The Mask of Anarchy
The Cloud
To A Skylark
from Epipsychidion
To the Moon
A Lament
One word is too often profaned
Chorus from Hellas
Concluding stanzas from Adonais
With A Guitar, To Jane
Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
To Jane: The Invitation
Time
Lines: ‘When the lamp is shattered’
Music, When Soft Voices Die
To Jane: The Recollection
Read by Bertie Carvel
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Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in social exclusion, exile, and possibly even his premature death at the age of twenty-nine. His work is a monument to his convictions and to the power of the human spirit, and today it is recognised as a key contribution to Romantic literature. This anthology contains many of his best-known poems, including Ozymandias, The Mask of Anarchy and To a Skylark, as well as excerpts from (among others) Prometheus Unbound and Adonaïs, all read by Bertie Carvel, one of the most talented English actors of his generation.
