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6 unusual facts about Percy Bysshe Shelley


Augustus Noble Hand

The foolish judgments of Lord Eldon about one hundred years ago, proscribing the works of Byron and Southey, and the finding by the jury under a charge by Lord Denman that the publication of Shelley's "Queen Mab" was an indictable offense are a warning to all who have to determine the limits of the field within which authors may exercise themselves.

Crown of Immortality

The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....

Exit English

The track "Blaze" features vocalist Thomas Barnett quoting lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy.

Shelleyan Orphan

In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle met in Bournemouth, England, where they discovered a mutual appreciation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Sidney Patrick Shelley

Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet (18 January 1880-1965) is a relative of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

St. Irvyne

Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in 1811 in London anonymously as "by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford".


1822 in literature

July 8 - English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from Livorno (where he set up The Liberal magazine with Leigh Hunt) to Lerici, is drowned when his boat sinks in a storm in the Ligurian Sea.

Alan Halsey

In addition, his prose works include The Text of Shelley's Death (1995) and A Robin Hood Book (1996).

Allegra Byron

Born in Bath, England, she initially lived with her mother and Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was turned over to Byron when she was fifteen months old.

Greta Hall

Greta Hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Sir George Beaumont, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 1802, Thomas De Quincey and John Ruskin.

Jean Overton Fuller

Fuller also wrote several other biographies, notably of Shelley, Swinburne, Sir Francis Bacon, Victor Neuburg and a book detailing her theory of Jack the Ripper's true identity being Walter Richard Sickert, an English painter.

Jeremy Isaacs

In 1990, Isaacs named a four-hour dramatisation of an early Percy Bysshe Shelley Gothic horror novel, Zastrozzi (1986), as one of the 10 programmes of which he was most proud during his tenure as Channel 4's chief executive.

Ladies of Llangollen

Their house became a haven for visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too.

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Richard Meale

Malouf also collaborated with Meale on his second operatic project, Mer de glace (1986–91), a tableaux-like juxtaposition of some ideas of the novel Frankenstein alongside the real dealings of Mary Shelley with Shelley and Byron.

Sir William Shelley

Of the judge's six brothers, one, John, became a knight of the Order of St John, and was killed in defending Rhodes against the Ottoman Turks in 1522; from another, Edward, who is variously given as second, third, or fourth son, came the baronets of Castle Goring, Sussex (created 1806), and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet.

Terza rima

Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in a language which has, in comparison with Italian, a more complex phonology, terza rima has been used by Wyatt, Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life).

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is a 2007 book about poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Lauritsen, who argues that Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, was the real author of Frankenstein.

The Masque of Anarchy

The Masque of Anarchy ( or 'The Mask of Anarchy') is a political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year.

Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Timothy Shelley

Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring MA (Oxon.) (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844) was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley.

William Christian Sellé

At the time of his death he left a widow and two adult daughters, one of whom was married to Harry Buxton Forman,a leading bibliographer, rare manuscripts editor and scholar of all things Shelley.

Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline

The major characters and the plot of the play are nearly identical with the 1810 novel "Zastrozzi" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.


see also

Shelley baronets

Percy Bysshe Shelley died before his father, leaving two sons: Charles Bysshe Shelley by his first wife Harriet Westbrook, and Percy Florence Shelley, Shelley's son from his second marriage to the author Mary Shelley.