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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A popular macabre story that is frequently shared around the Halloween holiday involves Mary Shelley, the author of gothic novels such as "Frankenstein," her late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, a ...
How did a 19 year old girl — a lass who never went on to anything that matched the genius of her career defining book — write Frankenstein, one of the first true science fiction novels? The ...
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 this day 223 years ago, 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 ...
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 ...