Ann Wroe’s daring new biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most inadvertently comic of the Romantics, reminded me just how Faustian a figure the poet cut. As a student at Oxford ...

Amy Wilcockson receives funding from the Midlands4Cities (AHRC) Doctoral Training Partnership for her PhD study. It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At ...

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 ...

A light wind, slow at first, but gaining in strength, whipped up the flames that were spilling from the iron furnace on a beach just outside the seaside town of Viareggio, on the coast of Tuscany.

In 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley—poet, dramatist, novelist, activist, critic—wrote a paragraph that would provide the introduction to 1840’s A Defence of Poetry. That essay, which would be published ...

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, ...

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 ...