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 ...

What comes to mind when people consider Percy Bysshe Shelley? Too often it’s the blue eyes and fluffy hair of an effete toff poet, a sort of prototype Fotherington-Thomas who, when he wasn’t babbling ...

As globally-sourced as the programme of the Manchester International Festival is, there are elements born and bred in the city. Perhaps the strongest is the performance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The ...

In 1811, a college student decided to protest war by writing poetry. Britain was fighting Napoleonic France at the time, and the 18-year-old Oxford student mourned the carnage, waste, and poverty he ...

Quite a few of Shelley’s contemporaries came to the view that he wasn’t all there – the inhabitants of Marlow, for example, who were treated to the recurrent spectacle of a disgraceful young radical ...

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