Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

She eloped with the married Percy Bysshe Shelley at a young age, facing social ostracism and enduring the deaths of several children. The tragic drowning of Percy Shelley in 1822 left her a widow ...

The Younger Memnon may be most famous because it is said to have inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II.

Nobody ever says, “Danny Dyer, I would like you to play a flautist having an existential crisis in wartime Budapest,” or, “Danny Dyer, I would like you to play Percy Bysshe Shelley in my ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...

The public are being asked to help choose a statue to commemorate the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. A shortlist of four designs has been put forward for Horsham Park in West Sussex.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley "Sweet April showers do spring May flowers." – Thomas Tusser "It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." – Rainer Maria Rilke ...