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 ', Ode to the West Wind, 1989 Louise Vines for London Wall 01 737 4948'. - this Ode being a Shelley poem.
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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