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.

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually ...

Elle Fanning stars in this uneven, "perfumed account" of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romance with poet Percy Shelley, and the fateful weekend that birthed her novel Frankenstein.

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and his ...

SHELLEY 1792-1822. Shelley was born in Sussex a son of Timothy Shelley, politician, (d.1844) and his wife Elizabeth. His grandfather was Sir Bysshe Shelley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and ...

How did a 19 year old girl — a lass who never went on to anything that matched the genius of her career defining book — write Frankenstein, one of the first true science fiction novels? The ...

One of the very few books inscribed by the 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley will headline Bonhams’ sale of fine books and manuscripts in London on March 23, with an estimated value ...

Michael Demson's graphic novel of Shelley's radical 'Mask of Anarchy' ... 128 pp., $16.95) traces a connection between Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “The Mask of Anarchy, ...

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and ...