Poet Of The Month

Each month, WPOM features a prominent poet from throughout history.

We feature six clues (3 per show on the first two weeks of the month) and unveil the poet's identity on the third week.

Our August Poet Of The Month Is...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. Romanticism’s major themes—restlessness and brooding, rebellion against authority, interchange with nature, the power of the visionary imagination and of poetry, the pursuit of ideal love, and the untamed spirit ever in search of freedom—all of these Shelley exemplified in the way he lived his life and live on in the substantial body of work that he left the world after his legendary death by drowning at age 29. Learn more...

Each month, WPOM features a prominent poet from throughout history. We feature six clues (3 per show on the first two weeks of the month) and unveil the poet's identity on the third week.

​Our August Poet Of The Month Is...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Each month, WPOM features a prominent poet from throughout history.

We feature six clues (3 per show on the first two weeks of the month) and unveil the poet's identity on the third week.

Our August Poet Of The Month Is...