Percy Bysshe Shelley 
The Witch of Atlas 

The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824. 
The plot of The Witch of Atlas revolves around the travels and adventures of a mysterious and mythical Witch who lives in a cave on Atlas' mountain by a secret fountain and who creates a hermaphrodite ‘by strange art’ kneading together fire and snow, a creature, Hermaphroditus, ‘a sexless thing’, with both male and female characteristics, with pinions, or wings. 

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.