It is well-known that Shelley lived in Marlow, but it is not widely well-known that he was there for just one year, March 1817 to March 1818. An examination of some of the happenings of that year ...

The horror in both del Toro’s film & Shelley’s original emerges when ingenuity is divorced from responsibility ...

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually liberated, ...

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One of the very few books inscribed by the 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley will headline Bonhams’ sale of fine books and manuscripts in London on March 23, with an estimated value ...

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and his ...

Two hundred years after he drowned, Shelley’s poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our own darkening age. By Frances Wilson Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it. Percy Bysshe Shelley ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not achieve literary fame during his lifetime, but today he is one of the most celebrated British poets. Shelley - who wrote during the Romantic period - drowned at sea in ...