Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet who wrote Prometheus Unbound, Ode to the West Wind, and Adonais — expelled from Oxford for atheism, radical in politics and love — and who drowned at 29 in the Bay of La Spezia, making him one of the great tragic poets of the English canon.

Created the most politically radical English Romantic poetry — Prometheus Unbound's unbinding of the defiant titan is both a political allegory (tyranny can be overthrown) and a metaphysical claim (love rather than power is the deepest force in the universe) — making him the Romantic poet most committed to revolution.