Percy Bysshe Shelley (;, 4 thang 8 nam 1792 – 8 thang 7 nam 1822) – nha tho, nha triet hoc Anh, mot trong nhung nha tho lon nhat cua the ky XIX.


Tieu su Percy Bysshe Shelley xuat than trong mot gia đinh quy toc lau đoi. Nam 12 tuoi vao hoc truong College đa đuoc ban be goi la "Shelley đien ro" vi say me đoc Lucretius va tuyen bo rang khong he co Chua Troi. Thoi gian nay Shelley con say me đoc cac tac pham triet hoc cua Voltaire, Francis Bacon. Nam 1810 vao hoc Đai hoc Oxford, in nhung bai tho ve chinh tri va tieu luan triet hoc The Necessity of Atheism (Can chu nghia vo than), chung minh rang khong the co su hoa nhap giua ton giao va tri tue nen bi đuoi hoc. Tu đay bat đau mot thoi ky xa lanh gia đinh va đi phieu lang. Mot thoi gian Shelley nghien cuu kinh te chinh tri va cac tac pham cua William Godwin. Vi long thuong hai, Shelley cuoi Harriet Westbrook, con gai cua mot chu quan lam vo va hai nguoi đi sang Edinburgh lam le cuoi. Cuoc hon nhan nay khong mang lai cho Shelley hanh phuc ma chi lam cho gia đinh cang xa lanh Shelley nhieu hon.
Nam 1812 Shelley đi sang Ireland đe tham gia phong trao giai phong dan toc, đoi đoc lap cho Ireland, Nha tho đung ve phia nhung nguoi giai phong, viet tac pham Queen Mab (Hoang hau Mab, 1813) ma Lord Byron goi la tac pham hay nhat cua Shelley. Su dung nhung hinh tuong cua Shakespeare, Shelley ve mot buc tranh tuong tuong trong mo cua mot co gai lac vao lau đai cua hoang hau Mab, đuoc hoang hau ke cho nghe nhung bat cong o tran gian va phan cuoi la mot tuong lai tuoi sang, noi con nguoi song tu do, khong con bi ap buc.
Nam 1814 Shelley cuoi vo lan thu hai. Nguoi nay la Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, thuong goi la Mary Shelley, con gai cua William Godwin, cung la mot nu nha van noi tieng. Nam 1818 gia đinh chuyen sang song o Y, xu so ma cac nha tho lang man van coi la ngon nguon cua cam hung thi ca. Chinh thoi ky nay Shelley viet đuoc nhieu tac pham co gia tri nhat nhu: The Cenci; Ode to the West Wind; The Masque of Anarchy; Julian and Maddalo; Prometheus Unbound; Hellas…
Cuoi nam 1822, gia đinh Shelley cung gia đinh mot nguoi ban song o biet thu Casa Nova ben bo bien. Mac du khong biet boi va khong hieu gi ve mon the thao đua thuyen nhung Shelley van sam cho minh chiec thuyen buom co ten "Ariel". Trong mot lan đen gap Lord Byron o Pisa, tren đuong tro ve "Ariel" bi chim do gap bao. May ngay sau nguoi ta tim thay xac cua Shelley, đem hoa tang ngay tren bo bien roi gui ve nghia trang Tin lanh o Roma. Con tim cua Shelley đuoc Mary Shelley mang theo minh cho đen het đoi.
Sang tao cua Shelley, khong đuoc nguoi đuong thoi đanh gia đung muc, co anh huong lon đen tho ca Anh va The gioi. Cuoc đoi ngan ngui nhung lang man cua Shelley la đe tai cua nhieu huyen thoai va truyen thuyet noi tieng.


Tac pham (1810) Zastrozzi and St Irvyne
(1811) The Necessity of Atheism (Can chu nghia vo than) tap tho, tieu luan
(1813) Queen Mab (Hoang hau Mab) truong ca
(1815) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
(1816) Mont Blanc
(1817) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
(1817) The Revolt of Islam
(1818) Ozymandias
(1818) Plato, The Banquet (or Symposium) dich "Bua tiec" cua Plato sang tieng Anh
(1819) The Cenci
(1819) Ode to the West Wind
(1819) The Masque of Anarchy
(1819) Men of England
(1819) England in 1819
(1819) The Witch of Atlas
(1819) A Philosophical View of Reform
(1819) Julian and Maddalo
(1820) Prometheus Unbound
(1820) To a Skylark
(1821) Adonais
(1821) Hellas
(1821) A Defence of Poetry (in lan đau nam 1840)
(1822) The Triumph of Life (viet do, in sau khi chet)


Tham khao Lien ket ngoai Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley at Project Gutenberg
Selected Poems of Shelley
Shelley and the Romantic Movement Luu tru ngay 24 thang 7 nam 2008 tai Wayback Machine
A talk on Shelley's politics (MP3) by Paul Foot: part 1 Luu tru ngay 4 thang 5 nam 2005 tai Wayback Machine, *part 2 Luu tru ngay 4 thang 5 nam 2005 tai Wayback Machine
A pedigree of the Shelley family
Masque of Anarchy, A Poem by Shelley
Shelley’s death and funeral @ Ward’s Book of Days
Romantic Circles — Excellent Editions & Articles on Shelley and other Authors of the Romantic period