Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley is considered by most scholars one of the greatest English-language poets ever.
"Have you not heard / When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, / His best friends hear no more of him?"
from LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
"A single word even may be a spark of inextinquishable thought."
from A DEFENCE OF POETRY
Shelley's wife, Mary, wrote the novel, FRANKENSTEIN.
1792 - 1822
POSTSCRIPT
"I'll moider da bum."
TONY GALENTO, HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER, WHEN ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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