the life-size, white marble sculpture of the naked, drowned poet [Percy Bysshe Shelley] is supported on a bronze plinth resting on the shoulders of two winged lions and the muse of poetry. It is as if the poet's lifeless form had washed up on shore in Italy and been transported to an academic cloister in the heart of England. He lies on his side on a patch of sand--his eyes closed, his mouth half open, his long hair replicating the effect of cascading water.The sculpture is the embodiment of youthful loss and wasted possibility.
from Aiken Standard: Poet memorialized by the college that expelled him
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