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 ...
Amy Wilcockson receives funding from the Midlands4Cities (AHRC) Doctoral Training Partnership for her PhD study. It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At ...
A light wind, slow at first, but gaining in strength, whipped up the flames that were spilling from the iron furnace on a beach just outside the seaside town of Viareggio, on the coast of Tuscany.
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 ...
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 ...
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 liberated, ...
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 liberated, ...