Shelley’s reputation has suffered more than any of the great English Romantic poets. Always the least read of his contemporaries John Keats and Byron, he was, nevertheless, the finest lyric poet ...

Voices Shelley’s long-lost poem casts him in a new light – less fop, more agitprop. Victorians saw his lyrical talent and forgot the atheism and revolutionary tendencies ...

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 ...

Shelley’s poem still falls short of Kalidasa’s masterpiece in terms of bringing life to nature as it is a mere conscientious ...

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, former U.S. vice President Aaron Burr, and Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin are a few of the intellectuals Shelley crossed paths with as a child. 3.

Benjamin Zephaniah is a huge admirer of Shelley. After a terrible start with the poet at school when the teacher told him he was stupid for not fully understanding what he was reading, Benjamin ...

One brash request, 7 books, and 34 bits of advice for writers How a whimsical invitation featuring the Rolling Stones and a Shelley poem led to some essential writing advice.

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is ...