Plaque

Percy Shelley - W1

Inscription

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822, poet, lived here in 1811.
English Heritage

Shelley lodged here after he was expelled from Oxford.

Site: Percy Shelley - W1 (1 memorial)

W1, Poland Street, 15

The mural on the sidewall of the building includes a faux blue plaque 'The Soho Mural, Ode to the West Wind, 1989 Louise Vines for London Wall 01 737 4948'. - this Ode being a Shelley poem.

Londonist explains that the Ode explores the death and decay that the autumn winds usher in and suggests that the subject of the mural may have been prompted by the Great Storm of 1987.

Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker

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Percy Shelley - W1

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet. Born at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex. Had a habit of eloping wit...

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Percy Shelley - W1

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...

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Louise Vines

Artist with the London Wall (women's) mural collective/group. Active 1989. S...

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