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Percy Bysshe Shelley, an Epic card
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 890,000
Ranked #696 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats.
- American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem." Shelley's reputation fluctuated during the 20th century, but since the 1960s he has achieved increasing critical acclaim for the sweeping momentum of his poetic imagery, his mastery of genres and verse forms, and…
- Among his best-known poetic works are the long poems Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Julian and Maddalo, The Mask of Anarchy, Adonais and The Triumph of Life, the short poems "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark", and the verse dramas The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound and Hellas.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Percy Bysshe Shelley article was read about 890,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Percy Bysshe Shelley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : After Amelia Curran, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.







