ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Known for his lyrical and long-form verse, Percy Bysshe Shelley was a prominent English Romantic poet and was one of the most highly regarded and influential poets of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831), a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel. It is often considered an early example of science fiction.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet is a nightingale in Shelley’s opinion “a nightingale, which sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. Then he goes further to claim that “poets are prophets”. Therefore, for Shelley a poet is someone dignified and has the superiority over the others.