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.^ Defence of poetry [by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; ed.
.^ Last links with Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
^ Liberal was concerted by Byron and Shelley, the latter being principally interested in it with a view to benefiting Leigh Hunt- by such an association with Byron .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The novelist
Mary Shelley was his second wife.
.^ It was on a beautiful summer evening, while wandering among the lanes whose myrtle-hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark which inspired one of the most beautiful of his poems.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ Taken altogether, they are the most perfect specimens of descriptive prose in the English language; never over-charged with colour, vibrating with emotions excited by the stimulating scenes of Italy, frank in their criticism, and exquisitely delicate in observation.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the Cascine outside Florence he also composed the "Ode to the West Wind", the most symmetrically perfect as well as the most impassioned of his minor lyrics.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Though he was producing a long series of imperishable poems, he did not take much interest in his work.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley, in her note on the "Revolt of Islam", confirms this account of his Bible studies; and indeed the influence of the Old Testament upon his style may be traced in several of his poems.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ (See Mrs. Shelley's note on the Revolt of Islam, and the whole Preface to the Prose Works.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ In the spring of 1819 the Shelleys settled in Rome, where the poet proceeded with the composition of "Prometheus Unbound".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ TO A SKYLARK. [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
He wrote the Gothic novels
Zastrozzi (1810) and
St. Irvyne (1811) and the short works
The Assassins (1814) and
The Coliseum (1817).
.^ Later on in life, Shelley outgrew this preoccupation with his idealized self, and directed his genius to more objective themes.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley had not yet made Byron's acquaintance, though he had sent him a copy of "Queen Mab", with a letter, which miscarried in the post.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His voice was soft and low, but broken in its tones,--when anything much interested him, harsh and immodulated; and this peculiarity he never lost.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ The influence of Byron upon Shelley, as he more than once acknowledged, and as his wife plainly perceived, was, to a great extent, depressing.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Some of his works were published, but they were often suppressed upon publication.
.^ It will be seen that, whatever Shelley may from time to time have said about the immortality of the soul, he was no materialist, and no believer in the extinction of the spiritual element by death.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I would much rather read a book normally or play something that did more with the story than just light it up.- Silent Conversation Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints and Tips at Jay is Games 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC jayisgames.com [Source type: General]
^ "In no individual perhaps was the moral sense ever more completely developed than in Shelley; in no being was the perception of right and of wrong more acute.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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Life
Education
.^ On this day Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, near Horsham, in the county of Sussex.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On their return to England in September, Shelley took a cottage at Great Marlow on the Thames, in order to be near his friend Peacock.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
He was the eldest of 7 children with 5 sisters and one brother. He received his early education at home, tutored by Reverend Evan Edwards of Warnham.
.^ Defence of poetry [by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; ed.
[6]
In 1802, he entered the
Syon House Academy of
Brentford.
.^ His voice was wanting in richness and suavity—high-pitched, and tending to the screechy; his See also: GENERAL GENERAL (Lat.- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ There is a considerable mass of convergent testimony to the fact that Shelley's voice was high pitched, and that when he became excited, he raised it to a scream.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ Williams saw my embarrassment, and to relieve me asked Shelley what book he had in his hand?- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[7].^ In the Michaelmas Term of 1810 Shelley was matriculated as a Commoner of University College, Oxford; and very soon after his arrival he made the acquaintance of a man who was destined to play a prominent part in his subsequent history, and to bequeath to posterity the most brilliant, if not in all respects the most trustworthy, record of his marvellous youth.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ Only one was to be found at all suitable; however, a trifle such as not finding a house could not stop Shelley; the one found was to serve for all.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We have only to read Shelley's "Essay on Christianity", in order to perceive what reverent admiration he felt for Jesus, and how profoundly he understood the true character of his teaching.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Full half an hour, to-day, I tried my lot With various flowers, and every one still said, 'She loves me--loves me not.'- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ We are also told that he spend the 40 pounds gained by his first novel, "Zastrozzi," on a farewell supper to eight school-boy friends.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Speculations on morals and metaphysics, A defence of poetry, Ode to Naples, The witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The fields of fancy/Mathilda, together with minor .
^ [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ TO A SKYLARK. [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thomas Jefferson Hogg was unlike Shelley in temperament and tastes.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ Such was the genesis of "Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson", edited by John Fitz Victor.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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In 1811, Shelley published his second Gothic novel
St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian and a pamphlet called
The Necessity of Atheism.
.^ A copy of this syllabus reached a Fellow of another college, who made the Master of the University acquainted with the fact.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ On the morning of March 25, 1811, Shelley was sent for to the Senior Common Room, and asked whether he acknowledged himself to be the author of the obnoxious pamphlet.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ At the beginning of this century the learning and the manners of Oxford dons were at a low ebb; and the Fellows of University College acted harshly but not altogether unjustly, ignorantly but after their own kind, in this matter of Shelley's expulsion.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ TO CONSTANTIA. [Dated 1817 by Mrs. Shelley, and printed by her in the "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ ON FANNY GODWIN. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, among the poems of 1817, in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[8] .^ Shelley frequently carried pistols with him upon these occasions, and would stop to fix his father's franks upon convenient trees and shoot at them.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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His refusal to do so led to a falling-out with his father.
Marriage
.^ Harriet was naturally drawn to the Westbrook extremity, and Shelley to the Boinville.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eliza Westbrook took a strong dislike to her; Harriet followed suit; and Shelley himself found that he had liked her better at a distance than in close companionship.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ In the year 1818-19 the Shelleys had no friends at all in Italy, except Lord Byron at Venice, and Mr. Mrs.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Shelley at Oxford : the early correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg, together with letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.
^ Shelley asked his friend what he thought of them, and Hogg answered that it might be possible by a little alteration to turn them into capital burlesques.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ But no investigation on the spot could throw any clear light on the circumstance, and Shelley's friends, Hogg, Peacock, and Mr. Madocks, concurred in regarding the affair as a delusion.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
When Harriet objected, however, Shelley brought her to
Keswick in England's
Lake District, intending to write. Distracted by political events, he visited Ireland shortly afterward in order to engage in radical pamphleteering.
.^ Address to the Irish people / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Before a week had passed, the "Address to the Irish People" had been printed.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ Armed with the manuscript of his "Address to the Irish People" (It was published in Dublin.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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His activities earned him the unfavourable attention of the British government.
.^ The first was Shelley's marriage with Mary Godwin on the 30th of December, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A month had not elapsed before Hogg left him in order to begin his own law studies at York; and Shelley abode "alone in the vine-trellised chamber, where he was to remain, a bright-eyed, restless fox amidst sour grapes, not, as his poetic imagination at first suggested, for ever, but a little while longer."- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ In the autumn of this year Shelley paid Lord Byron a visit at Ravenna, where he made acquaintance with the Countess Guiccoli.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Gisborne had been a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ While divided in this way between a home which had become distasteful to him, and a house where he found scope for his most romantic outpourings of sensibility, Shelley fell suddenly and passionately in love with Godwin's daughter, Mary.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ William, the eldest son of Shelley and Mary Godwin, was born on the 24th of January, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In 1818 the Shelleys—always nearly with Miss Clairmont in their See also: COMPANY company —were in See also: MILAN MILAN (Ital.- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ The distance of time between June, 1814, and November, 1816, and the new ties formed by Harriet in this interval, prove that there was no immediate connexion between Shelley's abandonment of his wife and her suicide.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The upshot came on the 28th of July, when Shelley aided Mary to elope from her father's house, Claire Clairmont deciding to accompany them .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
.^ Account of Shelley's visits to France, Switzerland, and Savoy, in the years 1814 and 1816, : with extracts from "The history of a six weeks' tour" and "Letters descriptive of a sail round a lake of Geneva and of the glaciers of Chamouni," first published .
^ They crossed to See also: CALAIS Calais , and proceeded across See also: FRANCE FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– ) France into See also: SWITZERLAND Switzerland .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Undeterred by this adverse criticism, Shelley subsequently offered "The Wandering Jew" to two publishers, Messrs.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ The three young people returned to London in September .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Five Happy Weeks (English) (as Author) Holiday Stories for Young People (English) (as Editor) Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth), 1894-1981 .- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Alastor, or, The spirit of solitude : and other poems.
^ Shelley and Mary (who was naturally always called Mrs Shelley) now settled at Bishopgate, near Windsor Forest; here he produced his first excellent poem, 4lastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, which was published soon after-wards with a few others .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Alastor : or, The spirit of solitude, and other poems / by Percy Bysshe Shelley; a facsimile reprint of the original edition first published in 1816 edited by Bertram Dobell.
.^ English romantic poetry; ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.
^ De Quincey, though he writes ambiguously upon this point, does not seem to have met Shelley.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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Byron
.^ William, the eldest son of Shelley and Mary Godwin, was born on the 24th of January, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The first was Shelley's marriage with Mary Godwin on the 30th of December, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those of you who want to download any Etext before announcement can get to them as follows, and just download by date.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This fact has to be mentioned by Shelley's biographer, because Allegra afterwards became an inmate of his home; and though he and Mary were ignorant of what was passing at Geneva, they did not withdraw their sympathy from the mother of Lord Byron's daughter.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Shelley, whose interest in the poor people around him was always keen and practical, lost no time in making their acquaintance at Tremadoc.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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^ The negotiations which had preceded Hunt's visit to Italy, raised forebodings in Shelley's mind as to the reception he would meet from Byron; nor were these destined to be unfulfilled.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His voice was soft and low, but broken in its tones,--when anything much interested him, harsh and immodulated; and this peculiarity he never lost.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ He spent the summer on the shores of the Lake of Geneva.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In July the Shelleys took a house at Bracknell near See also: WINDSOR WINDSOR (properly NEw WINDSOR) Windsor See also: FOREST Forest , where they had congenial neighbours, Mrs Boinville and her family .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Whether or not they knew of it while they and Claire were in daily intercourse with Byron, and housed close by him on the See also: SHORE shore of the See also: LAKE LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808) Lake of Geneva, may be left unargued .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
Regular conversation with Byron had an invigorating effect on Shelley's output of poetry.
.^ The character of Shelley can be considered according to two different See also: STANDARDS standards of estimation .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ The "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" was conceived during his voyage round the lake with Lord Byron.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Instead of remaining true to the conception of Beauty expressed in the "Hymn," Shelley "sought through the world the One whom he may love."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I have trodden the glaciers of the Alps, and lived under the eye of Mont Blanc.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Mont Blanc" was inspired by a view of that mountain and its surrounding peaks and valleys, as he lingered on the Bridge of Arve on his way through the Valley of Chamouni.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Vindication of natural diet : being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab : (a philosophical poem) / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Second marriage
.^ Accordingly he left London, and travelled by coach to Lynmouth, where he found that the Shelleys had flitted a few days previously without giving any notice.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Miss Shelley speaks of a play written by her brother and her sister Elizabeth, which was sent to Matthews the comedian, and courteously returned as unfit for acting.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
^ ON FANNY GODWIN. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, among the poems of 1817, in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The return of the Shelleys was closely followed by two suicides —first that of Fanny Wollstonecraft (already referred to), and second that of Harriet Shelley, who on the 9th of November drowned herself in the See also: SERPENTINE Serpentine .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ She subsequently formed another connexion which proved unhappy; and on the 10th of November, 1816, she committed suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The distance of time between June, 1814, and November, 1816, and the new ties formed by Harriet in this interval, prove that there was no immediate connexion between Shelley's abandonment of his wife and her suicide.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The first was Shelley's marriage with Mary Godwin on the 30th of December, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On the 28th of July Shelley left London with Mary Godwin, who up to this date had remained beneath her father's roof.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / collected by Thomas James Wise.
.^ Soon after her withdrawal to Bath, Harriet gave birth to Shelley's second child, Charles Bysshe, who died in 1826.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Harriet did not take much to her little girl, and gave her over to a wet-nurse, for whom Shelley conceived a great dislike.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The children were placed in the hands of a clergyman, to be educated in accordance with principles diametrically opposed to their parent's, while Shelley's income was mulcted in a sum of 200 pounds for their maintenance.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866.
^ The Four ages of poettry [by] Thomas Love Peacock.
^ On their return to England in September, Shelley took a cottage at Great Marlow on the Thames, in order to be near his friend Peacock.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Shelley hurried at once to London, and found some consolation in the society of Leigh Hunt.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Leigh Hunt's letter on Hogg's Life of Shelley : with other papers.
^ Liberal was concerted by Byron and Shelley, the latter being principally interested in it with a view to benefiting Leigh Hunt- by such an association with Byron .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
.^ I have spoken of this poem under its first name of "Laon and Cythna".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If "Alastor" had expressed one side of Shelley's nature, his devotion to Ideal Beauty, "Laon and Cythna" was in a far profounder sense representative of its author.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the first edition of the poem he made Laon and Cythna brother and sister, not because he believed in the desirability of incest, but because he wished to throw a glove down to society, and to attack the intolerance of custom in its stronghold.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
It was hastily withdrawn after only a few copies were published. It was later edited and reissued as
The Revolt of Islam in 1818. Shelley wrote two revolutionary political tracts under the
nom de plume, "The Hermit of Marlow."
Italy
.^ Allegra was soon sent on to See also: VENICE VENICE (continued) VENICE (Venezia) Venice , to her father, who, ever since parting from Miss Clairmont in Switzer-land, showed a callous and unfeeling determination to see and know no more about her .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ In May 1816 the pair left England for Switzerland, together with Miss Clairmont, and their own See also: INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr.- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Toward midnight on the 18th of July, Byron recited the lines in "Christabel" about the lady's breast; when Shelley suddenly started up, shrieked, and fled from the room.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ From the more universal and philosophical aspects of his theme, the poet once more turns to the special subject that had stirred him.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The influence of Byron upon Shelley, as he more than once acknowledged, and as his wife plainly perceived, was, to a great extent, depressing.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is much in the "Adonais" which seems now more applicable to Shelley himself than to the young and gifted poet whom he mourned.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY. Shelley wrote little during this year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The lives of Byron and Shelley during the next six years were destined to be curiously blent.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Newton among poets; Shelley's use of science in Prometheus unbound.
^ In the spring of 1819 the Shelleys settled in Rome, where the poet proceeded with the composition of "Prometheus Unbound".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Prometheus unbound : a lyrical drama in four acts / mit einleitung und kommentar, von Richard Ackermann.
Tragedy struck in 1818 and 1819, when his son Will died of fever in Rome, and his infant daughter Clara Everina died during yet another household move.
.^ Cazire stands for some one; probably it is meant to represent a woman's name, and that woman may have been either Elizabeth Shelley or Harriet Grove.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the year 1818-19 the Shelleys had no friends at all in Italy, except Lord Byron at Venice, and Mr. Mrs.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hogg and Shelley (Hogg is there named first) were expelled for " contumaciously refusing to answer questions," and for " repeatedly declining to disavow " the authorship .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
However, the identity of the mother is an unsolved mystery.
.^ Shelley spent his last guinea on the trip; but though the ladies of his family enjoyed the honour of some days passed in ducal hospitalities, the visit was not fruitful of results.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The upshot came on the 28th of July, when Shelley aided Mary to elope from her father's house, Claire Clairmont deciding to accompany them .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ There was some secrecy in their departure, because they were accompanied by Miss Clairmont, whose mother disapproved of her forming a third in the party.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ William, the eldest son of Shelley and Mary Godwin, was born on the 24th of January, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Together with relation of the death of the family of the Cenci / translated by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited by Betty T. Bennett.
[9] .^ Shelley spent his last guinea on the trip; but though the ladies of his family enjoyed the honour of some days passed in ducal hospitalities, the visit was not fruitful of results.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hogg was obliged to leave that city, in order to resume his law studies at York, and Shelley's programme of life at this period imperatively required the society of his chosen comrade.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ That Shelley early in 1814 had no intention of leaving his wife, is probable; for he was re-married to her on the 24th of March, eight days after his impassioned letter to Hogg, in St. George's, Hanover Square.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Elena died 17 months later, on 10 June 1820.
.^ The lives of Byron and Shelley during the next six years were destined to be curiously blent.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We spent the latter part of the year 1819 in Florence, where Shelley passed several hours daily in the Gallery, and made various notes on its ancient works of art.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
In later 1818 they were living in a pensione on the Via Valfonde (which now runs alongside Florence train station). The pensione was destroyed in World War II but there is a plaque on the building which replaced it.
.^ TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY].- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ CANCELLED STANZA. ODE TO HEAVEN. ODE TO THE WEST WIND. AN EXHORTATION. THE INDIAN SERENADE. CANCELLED PASSAGE. TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY].- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Sophia had for three years in her youth been ward of the poet's aunt and uncle. Hitting it off the pair moved into the same pensione and stayed for about two months.
.^ Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, bart.
^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The same principles guided Shelley at a still later period.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Volume 04 (English) (as Commentator) The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes.- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; the text newly collated and revised and edited with a memoir and notes by George Edward Woodberry.
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In the spring of 1819 the Shelleys settled in Rome, where the poet proceeded with the composition of "Prometheus Unbound".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Cenci : a tragedy in five acts / by Percy Bysshe Shelley, given from the poet's own editions, with an introduction by Alfred Forman and H. Buxton Forman and a prologue by John Todhunter.
^ It has been said that Shelley, as a landscape painter, is decidedly Turneresque; and there is much in "Prometheus Unbound" to justify this opinion.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Besides "The Cenci" and "Prometheus Unbound", of which it yet remains to speak, this year saw the production of several political and satirical poems--the "Masque of Anarchy", suggested by the news of the Peterloo massacre, being by far the most important.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Not only did he write the best lyrics, but the best tragedy, the best translations, and the best familiar poems of his century.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Masque of anarchy : a poem / by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; now first published, with a preface by Leigh Hunt.
.^ He read for the first time, this year, Montaigne's "Essays", and regarded them ever after as one of the most delightful and instructive books in the world.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ RESIDENCE AT PISA. On the 26th of January, 1820, the Shelley's established themselves at Pisa.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The final settlement of the Shelleys at Pisa seems to have been determined by the fact that the water of that place agreed with him.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The climate, however, disagreed with him, and in the month of January, 1820, they took up their abode at Pisa.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But you Will see him, and will like him too, I hope, With the milk-white Snowdownian antelope Match'd with this camelopard.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Adonais : an elegy on the death of John Keats / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Adonais, : an elegy on the death of John Keats, author of Endymion, Hyperion etc.
^ The news of Keats's death at Rome on the 27th of December, 1820, and the erroneous belief that it had been accelerated, if not caused, by a contemptible review of "Endymion" in the "Quarterly", stirred Shelley to the composition of "Adonais".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Shelley hurried at once to London, and found some consolation in the society of Leigh Hunt.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley states that the change from England to Italy was in all respects beneficial to her husband.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Leigh Hunt's letter on Hogg's Life of Shelley : with other papers.
.^ Liberal was concerted by Byron and Shelley, the latter being principally interested in it with a view to benefiting Leigh Hunt- by such an association with Byron .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ It was then settled that Byron, who had formed the project of starting a journal to be called "The Liberal" in concert with Leigh Hunt, should himself settle in Pisa.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The negotiations which had preceded Hunt's visit to Italy, raised forebodings in Shelley's mind as to the reception he would meet from Byron; nor were these destined to be unfulfilled.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ One looks back with unspeakable regret and gnawing remorse to such periods; fancying that, had one been more alive to the nature of his feelings, and more attentive to soothe them, such would not have existed.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ English and American reviews, magazines, journals, and new publications of the day ...
Leigh Hunt's son, the editor Thornton Leigh Hunt, when later asked whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man, replied:-
- .^ In the second Shelley found himself obliged to take an expensive journey to London, in the fruitless attempt to come to some terms with his father's lawyer, Mr. Whitton.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley had already done a good deal of boating with Williams on the Arno and the Serchio, and had on one occasion nearly lost his life by the capsizing of their tiny craft.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley had not yet made Byron's acquaintance, though he had sent him a copy of "Queen Mab", with a letter, which miscarried in the post.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
I found him seated on a lounge feasting himself from a drum of figs. .^ If your state is not listed and you would like to know if we have added it since the list you have, just ask.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Now, in that, Leno, consists the difference, Shelley would have handed me the drum and allowed me to help myself."[10]
Death
.^ The " Don Juan " had by this time made Via Reggio; she was not to be seen, though other vessels which had sailed about the same time were still discernible .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ On the night following that day of rest, Shelley took a postchaise for Leghorn; and early in the afternoon of the next day he set sail, with Williams, on his return voyage to Lerici.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Before long she acquired another name than Portia in the Shelley household, and now she is better known as the "Brown Demon."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Timothy Shelley was anxious to bind his erratic son down to a settlement of the estates, which, on his own death, would pass into the poet's absolute control.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ After doing his best to set things going comfortably between Byron and Hunt, Shelley returned on See also: BOARD (O. Eng.- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ Liberal was concerted by Byron and Shelley, the latter being principally interested in it with a view to benefiting Leigh Hunt- by such an association with Byron .- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... - Online Information article about PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (... 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC encyclopedia.jrank.org [Source type: General]
^ The Leigh Hunts arrived at last in Genoa, whence they again sailed for Leghorn.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Byron, Shelley, and their Pisan circle.
^ Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881.
^ Shelley acquired two nick-names in the circle of his Pisan friends, both highly descriptive.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Williams overruled his objections, and the "Don Juan" was built according to his cherished fancy.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This word-portrait corresponds in its main details to the descriptions furnished by other biographers, who had the privilege of Shelley's friendship.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On the 28th of July Shelley left London with Mary Godwin, who up to this date had remained beneath her father's roof.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ It did not last more than twenty minutes; and at its end Trelawny looked out anxiously for Shelley's boat.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley and I walked to Lerici, and made a stretch off the land to try her: and I find she fetches whatever she looks at.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Probably Shelley was attracted to the lake country as much by the celebrated men who lived there, as by the beauty of its scenery, and the cheapness of its accommodation.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Shelley's was to be an open boat carrying sail, Byron's a large decked schooner.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Note on Poems of 1820, by Mrs. Shelley.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY. Shelley wrote little during this year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley had already done a good deal of boating with Williams on the Arno and the Serchio, and had on one occasion nearly lost his life by the capsizing of their tiny craft.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In fact the boat was seaworthy, the sinking was due to the storm and poor seamanship of the three on board.
[11]
.^ Of all the beauty and the terror there-- A woman's countenance, with serpent-locks, Gazing in death on Heaven from those wet rocks.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Death is the veil which those who live call life; they sleep, and it is lifted."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The influence of Byron upon Shelley, as he more than once acknowledged, and as his wife plainly perceived, was, to a great extent, depressing.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Byron described him as "bold as a lion;" and indeed it may here be said, once and for all, that Shelley's physical courage was only equalled by his moral fearlessness.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At Eton Shelley was not popular either with his teachers or his elder school-fellows, although the boys of his own age are said to have adored him.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[11][12] .^ There is a considerable mass of convergent testimony to the fact that Shelley's voice was high pitched, and that when he became excited, he raised it to a scream.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no proof that Shelley, though eloquent in conversation, was a powerful public speaker.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He gave it to the world as a composition of a man who had "died at Florence, as he was preparing for a voyage to one of the Sporades," and he requested Ollier not to circulate it, except among a few intelligent readers.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The friendship extended to him by that excellent man at this season of his trouble may perhaps count for something with those who are inclined to judge him harshly.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Shelleys were now established at Tan-yr-allt, near Tremadoc, in North Wales, on an estate belonging to Mr. W.A. Madocks, M.P. for Boston.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[13]
The Funeral of Shelley by
Louis Edouard Fournier (1889); pictured in the centre are, from left, Trelawny, Hunt and Byron
In the days before he died, he was almost shot on two separate occasions.[citation needed] A British consul defended the shooter from the first of these two incidents, keeping him from all legal consequence.
.^ The Shelleys occupied two rooms facing each other; the Williamses had one of the remaining chambers, and Trelawny another.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They spent a pleasant day or two together, Shelley showing the Campo Santo and other sights of Pisa to his English friend.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ His favourite companion, Edward Ellerker Williams, of the 8th Light Dragoons, had begun his life in the navy, and had afterwards entered the army; he had spent several years in India, and his love for adventure and manly exercises accorded with Shelley's taste.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[14] The boat was found ten miles (16 km) offshore, and it was suggested that one side of the boat had been rammed and staved in by a much stronger vessel. However, the liferaft was unused and still attached to the boat. The bodies were found completely clothed, including boots.
.^ Last links with Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
^ Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron.
^ Shelley spent his last guinea on the trip; but though the ladies of his family enjoyed the honour of some days passed in ducal hospitalities, the visit was not fruitful of results.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ After a few months he became the neighbour of Lord Byron, who engaged the Palazzo Lanfranchi it order to be near him; and here many English and Italian friends gathered round them.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The impression, therefore, made on him by Shelley has to be gravely estimated by all who still incline to treat the poet as a pathological specimen of humanity.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A passage from Shelley's letter of June 18, 1822, expresses the plain prose of his relation to the Williamses:--"They are people who are very pleasing to me.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ What remains to be said concerning the cremation of Shelley's body on the 6th of August, must be told in Trelawny's own words.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The day after the news of his death reached England the
Tory newspaper
The Courier gloated: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned,
now he knows whether there is a God or not."
[15] A reclining statue of Shelley's body, depicting him washed up onto the shore, created by sculptor
Edward Onslow Ford at the behest of Shelley's daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Shelley, is the centerpiece of the
Shelley Memorial at
University College, Oxford. An 1889 painting by
Louis Edouard Fournier,
The Funeral of Shelley (also known as
The Cremation of Shelley), contains inaccuracies. In pre-Victorian times it was English custom that women not attend funerals for health reasons.
.^ On the 28th of July Shelley left London with Mary Godwin, who up to this date had remained beneath her father's roof.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "In the meantime Byron and Leigh Hunt arrived in the carriage, attended by soldiers, and the Health Officer, as before.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ What remains to be said concerning the cremation of Shelley's body on the 6th of August, must be told in Trelawny's own words.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In his graphic account of the cremation, he writes of Byron being unable to face the scene, and withdrawing to the beach.
.^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, bart.
^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[16][17] .^ "The English burying-place is a green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ William was buried in the Protestant cemetery, of which Shelley had written a description to Peacock in the previous December.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His ashes were carried by Trelawny to Rome and buried in the Protestant cemetery, so touchingly described by him in his letter to Peacock, and afterwards so sublimely in "Adonais".- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
His grave bears the
Latin inscription,
Cor Cordium ("Heart of Hearts"), and, in reference to his death at sea, a few lines of "Ariel's Song" from
Shakespeare's
The Tempest: "Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange." The grave site is the second in the cemetery.
.^ He was habited like a boy, in a black jacket and trousers, which he seemed to have outgrown, or his tailor, as is the custom, had most shamefully stinted him in his 'sizings.'- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Like a sister and a brother Living in the same lone home, Many years--we must live some Hours or ages yet to come.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the second Shelley found himself obliged to take an expensive journey to London, in the fruitless attempt to come to some terms with his father's lawyer, Mr. Whitton.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The ashes were exhumed and moved to their present location.
.^ In another place Hogg gives some details which complete the impression of Shelley's personal appearance, and which are fully corroborated by Trelawny's recollections of a later date.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Last links with Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
^ Cenci : a tragedy in five acts / by Percy Bysshe Shelley, given from the poet's own editions, with an introduction by Alfred Forman and H. Buxton Forman and a prologue by John Todhunter.
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Family history
Ancestry
Elizabeth was a great-granddaughter of
Hugh the younger Despenser by his second son Edward Despenser of
Buckland (d. 30 September 1342). Her parents were Sir Edward Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (24 March 1336–11 November 1375) and Elizabeth Burghersh (d. 26 July 1409).
The eldest son of Elizabeth by Baron Maltravers was
John Fitzalan, 13th Earl of Arundel. Their third son was Sir
Thomas Fitzalan of Beechwood. His own daughter Eleanor Fitzalan was married to Sir Thomas Browne of Beechworth Castle.
.^ At one birth these four were born With the world's forgotten morn, And from Pleasure still they hold _45 All it circles, as of old.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Four daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Hellen, and Margaret, and one son, John, who died in the year 1866, were the subsequent issue of Mr. Timothy Shelley's marriage.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Your sons, your wives, your brethren, were they; Who said they were slain on the battle day?- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Their oldest son Richard Sackville of Buckhurst (1472–18 July 1524) was married in 1492 to Isabel Dyggs. Their oldest son Sir John Sackville of Buckhurst (1492 – 5 October 1557) was married to Margaret Boleyn. Margaret was a sister to
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. His younger brother Richard Sackville had a less prominent marriage which resulted in the birth of Anne Sackville. Anne herself was later married to Henry Shelley.
Henry became father to a younger Henry Shelley. This younger Henry had at least three sons. The youngest of them Richard Shelley was later married to Joan Fuste, daughter of John Fuste from Ichingfield.
.^ Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley; collected and edited by Roger Ingpen.
^ Cenci : a tragedy in five acts / by Percy Bysshe Shelley, given from the poet's own editions, with an introduction by Alfred Forman and H. Buxton Forman and a prologue by John Todhunter.
^ Rosalind and Helen : a modern eclogue : with other poems / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
.^ His father, named Timothy, was the eldest son of Bysshe Shelley, Esquire, of Goring Castle, in the same county.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ William, the eldest son of Shelley and Mary Godwin, was born on the 24th of January, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Timothy Shelley was anxious to bind his erratic son down to a settlement of the estates, which, on his own death, would pass into the poet's absolute control.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
1700) married
widow Johanna Plum from New York City. Timothy and Johanna were the great-grandparents of Percy.
Family
.^ Defence of poetry [by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; ed.
7 November 1760). His mother was daughter of Charles Pilfold of
Effingham. Through his paternal grandmother Percy was great-grandson to
Reverend Theobald Michell of Horsham.
He was the eldest of seven children. His younger siblings were:
.^ Four daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Hellen, and Margaret, and one son, John, who died in the year 1866, were the subsequent issue of Mr. Timothy Shelley's marriage.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ On the 28th of July Shelley left London with Mary Godwin, who up to this date had remained beneath her father's roof.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ William, the eldest son of Shelley and Mary Godwin, was born on the 24th of January, 1816.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The intrusion of Eliza disturbed the harmony of Shelley's circle; but it is possible that there were deeper reasons for the abrupt departure which he made from York with his wife and her sister in November, 1811.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
1831)
Hellen Shelley (d. 10 May 1885)
Margaret Shelley (d. 9 July 1887)
.^ Miss Shelley speaks of a play written by her brother and her sister Elizabeth, which was sent to Matthews the comedian, and courteously returned as unfit for acting.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His uncle, Captain Pilfold of Cuckfield, was instrumental in effecting this partial reconciliation.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[18]
Descendants
.^ Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, bart.
^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hellas, Shelley's research notes for "Charles the First," and drafts for several lyrics : a facsimile edition / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; with full transcript .
.^ Soon after her withdrawal to Bath, Harriet gave birth to Shelley's second child, Charles Bysshe, who died in 1826.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He gave it to the world as a composition of a man who had "died at Florence, as he was preparing for a voyage to one of the Sporades," and he requested Ollier not to circulate it, except among a few intelligent readers.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What men gain fairly--that they should possess, And children may inherit idleness, From him who earns it--This is understood; Private injustice may be general good.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The only lineal descendants of the poet are therefore the children of Ianthe.
Ianthe Eliza Shelley was married in 1837 to Edward Jeffries Esdaile of
Cothelstone Manor. The marriage resulted in the birth of two sons and a daughter. Ianthe died in 1876.
.^ Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, bart.
^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the year 1815, upon the death of his father, he succeeded to the baronetcy, which passed, after his own death, to his grandson, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley, as the poet's only surviving son.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Bessie married Leopold James Yorke Campbell Scarlett, and so the Scarletts (later the Scarlett/Abingers after their son,
Shelley Leopold Laurence Scarlett, succeeded his
second cousin to become the fifth
Baron Abinger in 1903) became heirs to the Shelleys.
.^ From Leghorn the Shelleys removed in the autumn to Florence, where, on the 12th of November, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley was born.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ It may incidentally be pointed out that this story, credited as true by Lady Shelley in her Memorials, shows how early an estrangement had begun between the poet and his father.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Idealism
.^ Later on in life, Shelley outgrew this preoccupation with his idealized self, and directed his genius to more objective themes.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley had not yet made Byron's acquaintance, though he had sent him a copy of "Queen Mab", with a letter, which miscarried in the post.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His voice was soft and low, but broken in its tones,--when anything much interested him, harsh and immodulated; and this peculiarity he never lost.- Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/3) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
He became an idol of the next two or three or even four generations of poets, including the important
Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets
Robert Browning,
Alfred Lord Tennyson,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as
Lord Byron,
Henry David Thoreau,
William Butler Yeats, and
Edna St. Vincent Millay, and poets in other languages such as
Jan Kasprowicz,
Jibanananda Das and
Subramanya Bharathy.
Nonviolence
Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience and
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's passive resistance were influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action.
[19] .^ Masque of anarchy : a poem / by Percy Bysshe Shelley ; now first published, with a preface by Leigh Hunt.
^ Masque of anarchy : a poem / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
[20], which has been called "perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of
nonviolent resistance."
[21]
Vegetarianism
Shelley wrote several essays on the subject, the most prominent of which being "A Vindication of Natural Diet" and "On the Vegetable System of Diet".
Shelley, in heartfelt dedication to
sentient beings, wrote: "If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims.
.^ It is urged that they ought to have proceeded by the legal method of calling witnesses; and that the sentence was not only out of all proportion to the offence, but that it ought not to have been executed till persuasion had been tried.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The dwelling-place Of insects, beasts, and birds, becomes its spoil; _115 Their food and their retreat for ever gone, So much of life and joy is lost.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "I am disgusted with writing," he once said, "and were it not for an irresistible impulse, that predominates my better reason, should discontinue so doing."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To them we may trace not only the swiftness of his imaginative flight, but also his frequent satisfaction with the somewhat less than perfect in artistic execution.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Like a sister and a brother Living in the same lone home, Many years--we must live some Hours or ages yet to come.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was entitled "Proposals for an Association", and advocated in serious and temperate phrase the formation of a vast society, binding all the Catholic patriots of Ireland together, for the recovery of their rights.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We saw no house to suit us; but the notion took root, and many circumstances, enchained as by fatality, occurred to urge him to execute it.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Legacy
.^ And all that did then attend and follow, .- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ Byron described him as "bold as a lion;" and indeed it may here be said, once and for all, that Shelley's physical courage was only equalled by his moral fearlessness.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Yet this must be attempted; for Shelley is the only English poet who has successfully handled that most difficult of metres, terza rima.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Timothy Shelley was anxious to bind his erratic son down to a settlement of the estates, which, on his own death, would pass into the poet's absolute control.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the year 1815, upon the death of his father, he succeeded to the baronetcy, which passed, after his own death, to his grandson, the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley, as the poet's only surviving son.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
One reason for this was the extreme discomfort with Shelley's
political radicalism which led popular anthologists to confine Shelley's reputation to the relatively sanitised 'magazine' pieces such as 'Ozymandias' or 'Lines to an Indian Air'.
He was admired by
Mahatma Gandhi,
Alfred Nobel,
C. S. Lewis,
[22] Karl Marx,
Henry Stephens Salt,
George Bernard Shaw,
Bertrand Russell,
Isadora Duncan,
[23] Jiddu Krishnamurti ("Shelley is as sacred as the Bible."),
[24] Upton Sinclair[25] and
William Butler Yeats.
[26] .^ Love's philosophy / words by Shelly [sic] ; music by Roger Quilter.
^ Music for a scene from Shelley : for orchestra, opus 7 / Samuel Barber.
.^ Shelley's earnestness and just criticism held him captive."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley, whose interest in the poor people around him was always keen and practical, lost no time in making their acquaintance at Tremadoc.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From Dr. Lind Shelley not only received encouragement to pursue his chemical studies; but he also acquired the habit of corresponding with persons unknown to him, whose opinions he might be anxious to discover or dispute.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Probably Shelley was attracted to the lake country as much by the celebrated men who lived there, as by the beauty of its scenery, and the cheapness of its accommodation.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His pecuniary position was precarious, and in a short time he was destined to lose the one friend who had so generously shared his fate.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley's moral qualities are described with no less enthusiasm than his intellectual and physical beauty by the friend from whom I have already drawn so largely.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ First included among Shelley's poetical works in Mr. Forman's Library Edition, where a facsimile of the manuscript is given.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A copy exists amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When a mother clasps her child, Watch till dusty Death has piled His cold ashes on the clay; She has loved it many a day-- She remains,--it fades away.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
This contributed to the Victorian idea of him as a minor lyricist.
.^ Only one was to be found at all suitable; however, a trifle such as not finding a house could not stop Shelley; the one found was to serve for all.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Young Shelley; genesis of a radical.
^ Shelley had not yet made Byron's acquaintance, though he had sent him a copy of "Queen Mab", with a letter, which miscarried in the post.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Queen Mab : a philosophical poem / Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Although Shelley's works were banned from respectable Victorian households, his political writings were pirated by men such as
Richard Carlile who regularly went to jail for printing 'seditious and blasphemous libel' (i.e. material proscribed by the government) and these cheap pirate editions reached hundreds of activists and workers throughout the nineteenth century.
[27]
.^ Banquet of Plato and other pieces : translated and original / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Alastor : or, The spirit of solitude, and other poems / by Percy Bysshe Shelley; a facsimile reprint of the original edition first published in 1816 edited by Bertram Dobell.
^ Poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley / reprinted from the original editions and edited by Richard Herne Shepherd.
.^ [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ TO A SKYLARK. [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It has been said that Shelley, as a landscape painter, is decidedly Turneresque; and there is much in "Prometheus Unbound" to justify this opinion.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The impression, therefore, made on him by Shelley has to be gravely estimated by all who still incline to treat the poet as a pathological specimen of humanity.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In 2005 the
University of Delaware Press published an extensive two-volume biography by
James Bieri.
.^ Defence of poetry [by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; ed.
.^ Poetical works of Shelley.
^ Poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
At present (November 2009), its whereabouts is not generally known. An analysis of the poem by the only person known to have examined the whole work, appeared in the
Times Literary Supplement: H. R. Woudhuysen, "Shelley's Fantastic Prank", 12 July 2006.
.^ Defence of poetry [by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with his life.
^ Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; ed.
.^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Lauritsen sought to show Shelley's role and contributions in the writing of the novel.
In fiction
.^ Place of Shelley among the English poets of his time.
^ "The decision of the cause," he wrote to Mr. Gisborne, "whether or no _I_ am a poet, is removed from the present time to the hour when our posterity shall assemble; but the court is a very severe one, and I fear that the verdict will be, guilty--death."- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley's was to be an open boat carrying sail, Byron's a large decked schooner.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Though he was producing a long series of imperishable poems, he did not take much interest in his work.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ English romantic poetry; ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.
^ No student of English political history before the Reform Bill can regard his apprehensions of a great catastrophe as ill-founded.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From the Beginning to 1800 (English) (as Author) A History of the French Novel, Vol.- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Leigh Hunt's letter on Hogg's Life of Shelley : with other papers.
^ English romantic poetry; ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.
^ Last links with Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
.^ Shelley library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / collected by Thomas James Wise.
^ Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : the original two-volume novel of 1816-1817 from the Bodleian Library manuscripts / by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; with Percy Bysshe Shelley ; edited by Charles E. Robinson.
^ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / edited by Alan M. Weinberg.
This book is a fictional version of Mary's and Percy's elopement and the series of depressing events.
Shelley appears in
Frankenstein Unbound by Brian Aldiss.
.^ Shelley library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / collected by Thomas James Wise.
^ His favourite poets at the time of which I am now writing, were Monk Lewis and Southey; his favourite books in prose were romances by Mrs. Radcliffe and Godwin.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Posthumous poems of Shelley, Mary Shelley's fair copy book: Bodleian MS. Shelley adds.
.^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Clarion (English) (as Illustrator) The Dark Star (English) (as Illustrator) The Debtor A Novel (English) (as Illustrator) Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 .- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Verse and prose from the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley; edited by Sir John C.E. Shelley-Rolls, bart., and Roger Ingpen.
.^ Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries : with recollections of the author's life, and of his visit to Italy / by Leigh Hunt.
^ Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries, with recollections of the author's life, and of his visit to Italy.
^ In the year 1818-19 the Shelleys had no friends at all in Italy, except Lord Byron at Venice, and Mr. Mrs.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Shelley is portrayed as befriending cavalry officer Matthew Hervey while the latter is in Rome with his sister trying to cope with the death of his wife, in the 4th of
Allan Mallinson's novels in the
Hervey canon,
A Call to Arms (2002).
.^ The friend in question was a Miss Eliza Hitchener, of Hurstpierpoint, who kept a sort of school, and who had attracted Shelley's favourable notice by her advanced political and religious opinions.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These extracts prove beyond all question that the first contact with the outer world called into activity two of Shelley's strongest moral qualities--his hatred of tyranny and brutal force in any form, and his profound sentiment of friendship.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "Do not inquire if a man be a heretic, if he be a Quaker, a Jew, or a heathen; but if he be a virtuous man, if he loves liberty and truth, if he wish the happiness and peace of human kind.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Byron et Shelley en Suisse et en Savoie Mai-Octobre 1816.
^ Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, relating to Byron, Shelley, etc.
^ Account of Shelley's visits to France, Switzerland, and Savoy, in the years 1814 and 1816, : with extracts from "The history of a six weeks' tour" and "Letters descriptive of a sail round a lake of Geneva and of the glaciers of Chamouni," first published .
.^ Speculations on morals and metaphysics, A defence of poetry, Ode to Naples, The witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The fields of fancy/Mathilda, together with minor .
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Gothic [videorecording] / Virgin Vision presents a Ken Russell Film ; screenplay by Stephen Volk ; produced by Penny Corke ; directed by Ken Russell.
.^ Both of these young ladies, and the "Jew" their father, welcomed Shelley with distinguished kindness.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Send the stars light, but send not love to me, In whom love ever made Health like a heap of embers soon to fade-- *** THE FUGITIVES. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems".- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Speculations on morals and metaphysics, A defence of poetry, Ode to Naples, The witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The fields of fancy/Mathilda, together with minor .
^ The first is a description of Shelley himself following Byron and Moore--the "Pilgrim of Eternity," and Ierne's "sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong"--to the couch where Keats lies dead.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ She was christened by Lord Byron, not wholly with Shelley's approval; and one young English sailor, Charles Vivian, in addition to Williams and Shelley, formed her crew.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the autumn of this year Shelley paid Lord Byron a visit at Ravenna, where he made acquaintance with the Countess Guiccoli.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Percy, Mary and her sister Claire are some of the main characters in the novel,
The Vampyre: The Secret History of Lord Byron, by
Tom Holland (1995).
.^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the autumn of this year Shelley paid Lord Byron a visit at Ravenna, where he made acquaintance with the Countess Guiccoli.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It may incidentally be pointed out that this story, credited as true by Lady Shelley in her Memorials, shows how early an estrangement had begun between the poet and his father.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Their meeting and the growth of their friendship are described, along with a hypothetical account of the time the foursome shared in Switzerland. Holland provides a fictional conclusion to the mysteries that surround Shelley's death.
.^ The not altogether apocryphal story of his having once constructed a boat out of a bank-post-bill, and launched it on the lake in Kensington Gardens, deserves to be alluded to in this connexion.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When Shelley was on board, he had his papers with him; and much of the "Triumph of Life" was written as he sailed or weltered on that sea which was soon to engulf him.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In short, we have now a perfect plaything for the summer.'--It was thus that short-sighted mortals welcomed Death, he having disguised his grim form in a pleasing mask!- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Queen Mab : a philosophical poem / Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Vindication of natural diet : being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab : (a philosophical poem) / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
^ Queen Mab: a philosophical poem, with notes./ By Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley's
Prometheus Unbound is quoted by Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "
Skin of Evil". "A great poet once said, All spirits are enslaved that serve things evil."
Shelley appears as himself in
Peter Ackroyd's novel
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein.
.^ Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; tracing the myth.
^ Shelley had already done a good deal of boating with Williams on the Arno and the Serchio, and had on one occasion nearly lost his life by the capsizing of their tiny craft.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Shelley library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / collected by Thomas James Wise.
.^ When Shelley visited Lord Byron at Ravenna, the latter had suggested his coming out, together with the plan of a periodical work in which they should all join.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A transcript by Mrs. Shelley, given to Charles Cowden Clarke, presents one or two variants.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the autumn of this year Shelley paid Lord Byron a visit at Ravenna, where he made acquaintance with the Countess Guiccoli.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Shelly's poem, "The Indian Serenade", is recited in
Chosen, a
House of Night novel by
P.C. Cast.
In the 1995 novel "Shelley's Heart" by Charles McCarry, Shelley is the inspiration for a secret society that operates at the highest levels of government and is responsible for stealing a presidential election. The members of the society identify each other with the question and answer: What did Trelawny snatch from the funeral pyre at Viareggio? ¬– Shelley’s heart.
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters mentions Shelley in the poem "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
[29] as the namesake of the speaker and that his ashes "were scattered near the pyramid of caius cestius / Somewhere near Rome."
Shelley in music
.^ FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Music for a scene from Shelley : for orchestra : op.
^ [Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824, and dated by her ‘Pisa, 1820.’ There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ Music, when soft voices die / [music by] David Diamond ; [text by] Percy Bysshe Shelley.
122, no. 2 (1852).
.^ [Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824, and dated by her ‘Pisa, 1820.’ There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven, To whom alone it has been given To change and be adored for ever, Envy not this dim world, for never But once within its shadow grew _5 One fair as-- *** EPITAPH. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The epitaph, composed by Hunt, ran thus: "Percy Bysshe Shelley, Cor Cordium, Natus iv.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
In 1902, British composer
Sir Granville Bantock wrote a tone poem for orchestra based on the Shelley poem,
The Witch of Atlas: Tone Poem for Orchestra No.5 after Shelley, based on
The Witch of Atlas (1824), which was first performed on 10 September 1902.
In 1910-11, English composer
Sir Edward Elgar wrote a symphony (Symphony No.
.^ Wikipedia Musical Memories (English) (as Author) On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music (English) (as Author) Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op.- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ PATER OMNIPOTENS. TO THE MIND OF MAN. NOTE ON POEMS OF 1820, BY MRS SHELLEY. POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821: DIRGE FOR THE YEAR. TO NIGHT. TIME. LINES: 'FAR, FAR AWAY'.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ DIRGE FOR THE YEAR. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated January 1, 1821.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Spirit of delight : songs of life, love and death for soprano, baritone and piano on 27 poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley : 1977-1978 / Iain Hamilton.
.^ Amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian is a chaotic first draft, from which Mr. Locock ["Examination", etc., 1903, pages 60-62] has, with patient ingenuity, disengaged a first and a second stanza consistent with the metrical scheme of stanzas 3 and 4.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They sent the manuscript to Thomas Campbell, who returned it with the observation that it contained but two good lines:-- It seemed as if an angel's sigh Had breathed the plaintive symphony.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the Spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn, borrowing the house of some friends who were absent on a journey to England.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Music for a scene from Shelley : for orchestra : op.
^ Music for a scene from Shelley : for orchestra, opus 7 / Samuel Barber.
^ FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ TO A SKYLARK. [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ THE SENSITIVE PLANT. [Composed at Pisa, early in 1820 (dated 'March, 1820,' in Harvard manuscript), and published, with "Prometheus Unbound", the same year: included in the Harvard College manuscript book.- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The German-born composer
Berthold Goldschmidt composed an opera in three acts based on the Shelley play
The Cenci in 1949 entitled
Beatrice Cenci with a libretto by Martin Esslin "after Shelley's verse drama
The Cenci". The opera won first prize in the Festival of Britain opera competition in 1951. The opera was first performed in 1988. The first staged production of
Beatrice Cenci in the UK was by the Trinity College of Music on July 9–11, 1998.
.^ Cenci : opera in eight scenes / by Havergal Brian ; [words by] Shelley ; vocal score.
The opera premiered in 1997 in the UK.
.^ [Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with “Prometheus Unbound” in the same year.- The Complete Poetical Works, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (volume25) 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC ebooks.adelaide.edu.au [Source type: Original source]
^ Place of Shelley among the English poets of his time.
^ Newton among poets; Shelley's use of science in Prometheus unbound.
.^ Cenci : opera in eight scenes / by Havergal Brian ; [words by] Shelley ; vocal score.
^ Miss Shelley speaks of a play written by her brother and her sister Elizabeth, which was sent to Matthews the comedian, and courteously returned as unfit for acting.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ BEFORE!* YOU USE OR READ THIS ETEXT By using or reading any part of this PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm etext, you indicate that you understand, agree to and accept this "Small Print!"- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ BEFORE!* YOU USE OR READ THIS EBOOK By using or reading any part of this PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm eBook, you indicate that you understand, agree to and accept this "Small Print!"- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The last lines of "Adonais" might be read as a prophecy of his own death by drowning.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A Defence of poetry and drafts for Adonais and other poems in English and Italian) together with Bodleian Ms. Shelley adds.
^ Three manuscript copies are extant: The Trelawny manuscript ("Remembrance"), the Harvard manuscript ("Song") and the Houghton manuscript--the last written by Shelley on a flyleaf of a copy of "Adonais".- — Volume 2 / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Adonais : an elegy on the death of John Keats / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
"Adonais" was originally the B-side to "The 13th", released in 1996.
American art-rock collective The Pretty Petty Thieves released a limited-edition (only 250 copies ever made available)
EP entitled
Percy Shelley's Heart in 2006.
The English psychedelic rock band of Arrowe Hill recorded a song called "Cor Cordium (Bysshe Goes to Bel-Air)" based on the death of Shelley, which was included on their fourth LP 'A Few Minutes in the Absolute Elsewhere' in February 2010.
Major works
- (1810) Zastrozzi
- (1810) Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
- (1810) Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson: Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of That Noted Female Who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786
- (1811) St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
- (1811) The Necessity of Atheism
- (1812) The Devil's Walk: A Ballad
- (1813) Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
- (1814) A Refutation of Deism: in a Dialogue
- (1815) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
- (1815) Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit (chapbook)
- (1816) Mont Blanc
- (1817) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (text)
- (1817) Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City
- (1817) The Revolt of Islam, A Poem, in Twelve Cantos: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century
- (1817) History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland (with Mary Shelley)
- (1818) Ozymandias (text)
- (1818) Plato, The Banquet (or Symposium) translation from Greek into English[30]
- (1818) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Preface)
- (1818) Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue
- (1819) The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts
- (1819) Ode to the West Wind (text)
- (1819) The Masque of Anarchy
- (1819) Men of England
- (1819) England in 1819
- (1819) The Witch of Atlas
- (1819) A Philosophical View of Reform
- (1819) Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation
- (1820) Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts
- (1820) To a Skylark
- (1820) Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
- (1821) Adonaïs
- (1821) Hellas, A Lyrical Drama
- (1821) A Defence of Poetry (first published in 1840)
- (1822) The Triumph of Life (unfinished, published in 1824 after Shelley died)
- (1822) The Cloud
Short prose works
- "The Assassins, A Fragment of a Romance" (1814)
- "The Coliseum, A Fragment" (1817)
- "The Elysian Fields: A Lucianic Fragment"
- "Una Favola (A Fable)" (1819, originally in Italian)
Essays
- Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811)
- The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
- A Defence of Poetry
- On Love
- On Life in a Future State
- On The Punishment of Death
- Speculations on Metaphysics
- Speculations on Morals
- On Christianity
- On the Literature, the Arts and the Manners of the Athenians
- On the Symposium, or Preface to The Banquet Of Plato
- On Friendship
See also
- Bolesław Prus#Later years (use of Shelley's tomb inscription on Prus's tomb) (Polish)
- Godwin-Shelley family tree
- Rising Universe – A water sculpture celebrating the life of Shelley near his birthplace in Horsham Sussex.
Notes
- ^ The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin (London, 1847), p. 323
- ^ Bysshe is pronounced as if written bish.
- ^ Isadora Duncan, "My Life ", W. W. Norton & Co.,1996, pp. 15, 134.
- ^ Arthur H. Nethercot The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant (University of Chicago Press, 1963), p 392n.
- ^ Thomas Weber, "Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor," Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 28–29
- ^ The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin (London, 1847)
- ^ Ian Gilmour, Byron and Shelley: The Making of the Poets, New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2002, p.96–97.
- ^ India Knight. "Article in the ''Times'' Online". Tls.timesonline.co.uk. http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2266779,00.html. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Benita Eisler, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame 1999: p668.
- ^ John Bedford Leno. The Aftermath with Autobiography of the Author. London: Reeves & Turner 1892.
- ^ a b "The Sinking of the Don Juan" by Donald B. Prell, Keats-Shelley journal, Vol. LVI, 2007, pp 136–154
- ^ StClair, William, Trelawny, the Incurable Romancer, New York: The vanguard Press, 1977
- ^ Richard Holmes, Shelley: The Pursuit (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1975).
- ^ StClair and Prell
- ^ Edmund Blunden, Shelley, A Life Story, Oxford University Press, 1965.
- ^ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 1955 X(1):114-116; doi:10.1093/jhmas/X.1.114-b
- ^ "Foxnews.com". Foxnews.com. 2008-07-20. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386842,00.html. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ The Life and Times of Captain John Pilfold, CB,RN; Hawkins, Desmond, Horsham Museum Society, 1998
- ^ Thomas Weber, "Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor," Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Thomas Weber, "Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor," Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 28.
- ^ "Morrissociety.org" (PDF). http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/SP94.10.4.Nichols.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ "Poems of the Week". Themediadrome.com. http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/poems_shelley.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Isadora Duncan, "My Life ", W. W. Norton & Co.,1996, pp. 15, 134.
- ^ Arthur H. Nethercot The Last Four Lives of Annie Besant (University of Chicago Press, 1963), p 392n.
- ^ Upton Sinclair, "My Lifetime in Letters," Univ of Missouri Press, 1960.
- ^ Yeats: The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry, 1900.
- ^ Some details on this can also be found in William St Clair's The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: CUP, 2005) and Richard D. Altick's The English Common Reader (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1998) 2nd. edn.
- ^ John Lauritsen (2007). The Man Who Wrote "Frankenstein". Pagan Press. ISBN 0943742145.
- ^ "Percy Bysshe Shelley". Spoon River Anthology. http://spoonriveranthology.net/spoon/river/view/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Plato, The Banquet, translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pagan Press, Provincetown 2001, ISBN 0-943742-12-9. Shelley's translation and his introductory essay, "A Discourse on the Manners of the Antient Greeks Relative to the Subject of Love", were first published unbowdlerized in 1931.
References
.^ Percy Bysshe Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by Tatsuo Tokoo.
^ Percy Bysshe Shelley / edited by Donald H. Reiman.
^ Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley, consisting of miscellaneous selections from his poetical works.
Ohio:
Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Holmes, Richard. .
Maurois, André, Ariel ou la vie de Shelley, Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1923
St Clair, William.^ A certain interest attaches to it as the first known link between Shelley and William Godwin, for it was composed under the influence of the latter's novel, "St.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Ariel : the life of Shelley / by André Maurois ; translated by Ella D'Arcy.
^ Ariel, ou, La vie de Shelley [electronic resource] / A. Maurois.
.^ Shelley had more than once urged Godwin and his family to visit him.- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
External links
.^ Flowers of fancy, selected from the works of P.B. Shelley; arranged and illustrated by E.H. Garrett.
^ The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 (English) (as Translator) The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 (English) (as Translator) The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 (English) (as Translator) Web site copyright © 2003-2009 Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation — All Rights Reserved.- Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg 11 January 2010 3:14 UTC www.gutenberg.org [Source type: Original source]
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
English poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
4 August 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Horsham, England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
8 July 1822 |
| PLACE OF DEATH |
Livorno, Italy |
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