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3 days ago · Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas ...
Jul 4, 2024 · spouse Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley (born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng.—died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]) was an English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest ...
3 days ago · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
Jul 2, 2024 · Shelley, a prominent Romantic poet, wrote this play in 1819 during a stay in Italy. The Cenci reflects his interest in exploring themes of power, moral perversion, corruption, and rebellion ...
1 day ago · Shelley begins his poem, written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester 1819, with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time, "God, and King, and Law" – and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: "Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free". The crowd at this gathering is met by armed soldiers, but the protesters do not raise an arm against their assailants:
Jul 19, 2024 · Speaking to us with pervasiveness and power, Swift’s works are every bit as profound, significant and foundational as Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho, Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Percy Bysshe Shelley > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “Rise like Lions after slumber. In unvanquishable number-. Shake your chains to earth like. dew. Which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many-they are few.”.
