Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet in the romantic tradition.
 Shelley also developed an interest in Plato and idealist philosophy which he pursued in later years through self-study
The Shelley household had settled in Tremadog, Wales in September 1812, where Shelley worked on Queen Mab, a utopian allegory with extensive notes preaching atheism, free love, republicanism and vegetarianism

