In his brief thirty years, Shelley led a rather unconventional and rebellious life marked by involvements in radical politics and turbulent love affairs. But an unbiased and understanding reading of his poetry reveals his importance as one of the great poets of the Romantic era. In his poetry Shelley searched for transcendent moments and nature becomes the portal for his meditation upon the ultimate source of life. This collection contains his greatest and most famous lyric poems eg Ozymandias.