The author, John Lauritsen, claims the true credit for the world's first science fiction novel should go to Percy Bysshe Shelley, her future husband, who was present that night.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

A radical poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was just 18 years old can now be read in full despite having been kept under lock and key for the last 204 years.

On July 8th, 1822, 177 years ago today, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley set sail across the Gulf of Genoa in his small schooner Ariel to visit his friend Lord Byron in Livorno. He was 30 years of ...

A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which experts say will “rewrite” the romantic poet’s biography, is to go on display for the first time in two centuries after it was acquired by ...

Julian Sands, a versatile British actor whose film roles included the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Louis XIV, a warlock, Superman’s father and a Latvian pimp, was pronounced dead on Tuesday, more ...

A permanent public memorial to radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is set to be commissioned in his Sussex home town. It is proposed that the memorial to the Horsham poet will be situated in the ...