Percy Bysshe Shelley ( /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) ... Mark Twain took particular aim at Shelley in In Defense of Harriet Shelley, ...

In 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley—poet, dramatist, novelist, activist, critic—wrote a paragraph that would provide the introduction to 1840’s A Defence of Poetry.That essay, which would be ...

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.

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 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) made a life, albeit a short one, out of a radical and utterly destructive utopianism. He was a dedicated atheist and a vegetarian, a proponent of property held in ...

When Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was 18, she had a dream that would change her life. It was during 1815, “the year without a summer”, when the eruption of Indonesian volcano Mount Tambora became ...

THE poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in the words of Bertrand Russell, “an outcast from the first,” as would be expected for a radical Romantic in the early 1800s. An article on Shelley seems fitting as ...

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 ...