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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. | | | Their grandson John Shelley of Fen Place was married himself to Helen Bysshe, daughter of Roger Bysshe. | | | Three children survived Shelley: Ianthe and Charles, his daughter and son by Harriet; and Percy Florence, his son by Mary. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley had the temper of an innovator and a martyr; and in an intellect wondrously poetical he united speculative keenness and humanitarian zeal in a degree for which we might vainly seek his precursor. | | | Shelley, in early youth, had a somewhat "priggish" turn for moralizing and argumentation, and a decided mania for proselytizing; his schoolgirl sisters, and their little Methodist friend Miss Westbrook, aged between fifteen and sixteen, must all be enlightened and converted to anti-Christianity. | | | In the character of Percy Bysshe Shelley three qualities became early manifest, and may be regarded as innate: impressionableness or extreme susceptibility to external and internal impulses of feeling; a lively imagination or erratic fancy, blurring a sound estimate of solid facts; and a resolute repudiation of outer authority or the despotism of custom. |
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| | The Academy of American Poets - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley lost custody of his two children by Harriet because of his adherence to the notion of free love. | | | Shelley also became enamored of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter, Mary, and in 1814 they eloped to Europe. | | | In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, a long narrative poem that, because it contained references to incest as well as attacks on religion, was withdrawn after only a few copies were published. |
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http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/179
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley's first educational experience was at a day school in Warnham where he learnt elementary Latin and Greek. | | | The enduring legacy of Shelley's poetry is a fitting memorial to his life, as his poetical work embodies, his own observation, that “[l]ong after the man is dead, the immortal spirit may survive, and speak like one belonging to a higher world” (Letters II, p. | | | Influenced by the philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704) and David Hume (1711-1776), The Necessity of Atheism asserted that, on empirical grounds, it was impossible to prove God's existence. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4050
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | In 1814 Shelley fell in love and eloped with Mary, the sixteen-year-old daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. | | | As a young man he was taken to the House of Commons where he met Sir Francis Burdett, the Radical M.P. for Westminster. | | | At university Shelley wrote articles defending Daniel Isaac Eaton, a bookseller charged with selling books by Tom Paine and the much persecuted Radical publisher, Richard Carlile. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRshelley.htm
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| | Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A man stands in front of the graves of English poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats at a non-Catholic cemetery in Rome, 09 February 2006. | | | SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE [Shelley, Percy Bysshe], 1792-1822, English poet, b. | | | The Cenci, a tragedy in verse exploring moral deformity, was published in 1819, followed by his masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound (1820). |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/ShelleyP1.asp
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| | Neurotic Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | The bodies of Shelley, Williams and the boat's sailor washed up ten days later and were treated and cremated on the beach because of quarantine laws to protect against the plague. | | | But by 1814, Shelley had fallen in love with Mary Godwin, which upset both Harriet and Mary's father, William Godwin. | | | Baby Clara died in 1818 in Mary's arms while she waited in the hall of an inn for Shelley to find a doctor. |
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http://www.neuroticpoets.com/shelley
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley: biography and overview of the great romantic poet's poetry |
| | A complete edition of "Shelley's Poetical Works" with notes by his widow was published in four volumes in 1839, and the same lady gave to the world two volumes of his prose "Essays," "Letters from Abroad," "Translations and Fragments." Shelley's was a dream of romance--a tale of mystery and grief. | | | Thus in noble blood Shelley was more fortunate than most of his brother poets, considering the estimate that England placed upon the distinction of caste. | | | Such treatment might have been called out by his fondness for wild romances and his devotion to reading instead of more solid school work. |
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http://www.2020site.org/poetry/pbs.html
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley learned of this event on 15 December, and plans were immediately made to legitimate his relationship with Mary. | | | Shelley saw himself singled out for persecution, and he and Mary began to think of leaving the country. | | | William Godwin to whom Shelley introduced himself in rather the later guise of Victor Frankenstein, as an admirer of the occult writers |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/PShelley/bio.html
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| | PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
| | A first-person response to Shelley's Defence of Poetry and his statement that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." In "Shelley's Defence Today," by Esther Cameron, The Antigonish Review, 122. | | | A discussion of verse form in Shelley, by George Saintsbury, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21) | | | "Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity," Essay considers the implications of using an early cultural critic, Henry Salt, as a model for contemporary Ecocriticism. |
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http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/SHELLEYPB.htm
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | At 18 he was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing The Necessity of Atheism, which opened with "There is no God." He posted a copy to "every Bishop in the Kingdom" and placarded the chapel with atheistic signs. | | | He explained that truth is only found when there is an opportunity for open discussion. | | | In 1444 Caxton published the first book ever printed in England. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/percyshelley.html
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Although an atheist, Shelley had a profound respect for Christ, who he saw as a fellow revolutionary. | | | I am formed, - if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind - to apprehend minute and remote distinctions of feeling whether relative to external nature, or the living beings which surround us, and to communicate the conceptions which result from considering either the moral or material universe as a whole. | | | He was also a strong advocate of women's rights, having been influenced by Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). |
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http://www.heureka.clara.net/art/shelleyp.htm
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Charles Brockden Brown was one of his favourite authors. | | | You were all brutally mistaken about Shelley, who was without exception the best and least selfish man I ever knew. | | | He was fascinated with scientific experiments, and his friend Hogg related that his rooms were full of scientific equipment. |
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http://pluto.scs.ryerson.ca/~monica/shelley.htm
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| | "A Defence of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Thus Shelley, in the main current of thought in his day, and particularly as seen in the philosophy of Adam Smith and David Hume, exalts imagination to the level of reason. | | | Shelley intended this paper to be in three parts, but the other two were not written.' | | | In the meantime The Liberal having died a natural deh, A Defence remained unpublished until Mary Shelley's edition of the prose in 1840. |
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http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/defence.html
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley later abandoned Harriet for Mary Wollstonecraft, whom he married after Harriet's suicide. | | | Buy books related to Percy Bysshe Shelley at amazon.com | | | This, together with his elopement with and marriage to the sixteen year-old Harriet Westbrook in the same year, caused an irreparable breach with his family. |
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http://www.englishverse.com/poets/shelley_percy_bysshe
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| | Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | After one year at Oxford they were expelled together for writing and circulating a pamphlet entitled "The Necessity of Atheism." Shelley married Harriet Westbrook soon after leaving Oxford. | | | Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1901) | | | A playwright and essayist as well as a romantic poet, Shelley is admired for his dramatic poem "Prometheus Unbound" (1820). |
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http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/shelley.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies > Percy Bysshe Shelley | | | Percy Bysshe Shelley[bish] Pronunciation Key, 1792–1822, English poet, b. |
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Shelley in Love |
| | Her suicide note, addressed to her sister, Eliza, and Shelley, is written by one who has arrived at the opposite of Shelley's defiant unconventionality, and who viewed suicide as the only option: "I could never be anything but a source of vexation and misery to you all.... | | | » Related authors: Arthur Henry Hallam, John Keats, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley | | | Unswayed, Shelley applied for custody of their two children, and to make his case more presentable, in his lawyer's eyes anyway, he and Mary Godwin married. |
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http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=11/9/1816
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley Collection at Bartleby.com |
| | Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. | | | A widow bird sate mourning for her Love | | | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Authors > Verse > Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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| | [minstrels] Ozymandias -- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | And of Shelley himself: Percy Bysshe (pronounced 'Bish') Shelley, English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. | | | But in Italy, far from the daily irritations of British politics, Shelley deepened his understanding of art and literature and, unable to reshape the world to conform to his vision, he concentrated on embodying his ideals within his poems. | | | Queen Mab, the early poems first published in 1964 as The Esdaile Notebook, Laon and Cythna, and most of his prose works were devoted to reforming society; and even Alastor, Rosalind and Helen, and the personal lyrics voiced the concerns of an idealistic reformer who is disappointed or persecuted by an unreceptive society. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/22.html
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| | The Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource Page |
| | Includes a select listing of books devoted to criticism and interpretation of Shelley; biographies of Shelley; editions of Shelley's poetry, prose, fiction, and letters; and a select database of over 600 journal and book articles from 1980 to the present. | | | Includes links to online editions of Shelley's Poetry, Prose, and Letters; hypertext critical editions of specific poems; and other Shelley resources currently available on the web. | | | An introduction to the site, its contents, and the editorial principles that guide it. |
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http://www.wam.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/home.html
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Percy Bysshe Shelley Page |
| | Penguin Books includes a selected Shelley, and there is an especially good Norton Critical Edition of Shelley's Poetry and Prose, edited by Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers, 1977. | | | Romanticism and Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" Essay by Patrick Mooney. | | | The San Antonio College LitWeb Percy Bysshe Shelley Page |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/shelley.htm
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | Shelley's best-known works include his Prometheus Unbound (1819), a lyrical drama in which Shelley expounds the cause of an imaginative revolution, his atheistic poem Queen Mab (1821), his prose essay A Defence of Poetry (1840) and The Triumph of Life, left unfinished at Shelley's death. | | | Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte | | | Other works include the unfinished novella The Assassins (1814), the essay A Philosophical View of Reform (1820), and a number of pamphlets on vegetarianism and political subjects - including his An Address to the Irish People (1812) and A Letter to Lord Ellenorough (1812) - as well as an early novel Zastrozzi: A Romance (1810). |
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http://www.netpoets.com/classic/057000.htm
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | A critical look at Shelley and his works, in part concerning how his poetry relates to the Church. | | | A book-length critical look at Shelley and his works, written in the early part of the 20th century. | | | This essay examines "the case of Shelley, a writer obviously too important to ignore in any treatment of nineteenth-century literature but also one controversial enough to raise doubts about the whole issue of treating modern poetry in the academic curriculum." |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=she-42
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| | Romantic Circles: Scholarly Resources--The Shelley Chronology--by Carl Stahmer |
| | Shelleys flee to Livorno, where MWS remains in depression, while PBS writes The Cenci in summer (printed in Italy, it is sent to England for publication in 1820). | | | A letter from London informs PBS of Keats's death (Rome, February 23). | | | Shelleys meet Edward and Jane Williams who have recently arrived in Pisa. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/shelcron
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Percy Bysshe Shelley: Defence of Poetry, 1819 |
| | The "Defence of Poetry" is by far the most important of Shelley's prose writings, and is of great value in supplementing and correcting the picture of his mind which is given by his lyrical poetry; for we can perceive from this brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that Shelley had intellect as well as imagination. | | | The immediate occasion of the essay was the publication of Thomas Love Peacock's "Four Ages of Poetry," to which Shelley's work was originally a reply. | | | Reason is the enumeration of qualities already known; imagination is the perception of the value of those qualities, both separately and as a whole. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/shelley-poetry.html
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| | Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| | And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. | | | All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users. | | | :: Author » Letter "P" » Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
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http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley/1
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| | Poetry Archives @ eMule.com |
| | Home » Classic Poets » Percy Bysshe Shelley | | | THE wind has swept from the wide atmosphere |
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