Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | John Keats | Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke
. Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt
, then Percy
and Mary Shelley
and William Hazlitt
. Mary... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG
and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley
, their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont
, Byron
, and Dr John W. Polidori
. Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore... |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | Violet Paget (later VL
) met Cornelia Turner
in Paris. A novelist, companion to Shelley
, and lover of Giovanni Ruffini
, Turner became a vital supporter of Violet's early writing. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 14-17 |
Friends, Associates | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse
, and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy
and Mary Shelley
and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont
, with... |
Friends, Associates | Margiad Evans | A young poet whom she calls B—, a descendant of Percy Shelley
(and therefore presumably of Mary Shelley
too), whom she had known since his boyhood, moved from his own cottage to stay with ME |
Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | In 1817 he was sitting up until three in the morning with Percy
and Mary Shelley
discussing monarchy and republicanism. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 163 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mathilde Blind | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain? Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Despard | In this historically-based essay CD
sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. Shaw, Frederick John, editor. The Case for Women’s Suffrage. Unwin. 190 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | Her title applies to human beings an image which Percy Shelley
applied, in his Ode to the West Wind, to autumn leaves: like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Critic Peter J. Conradi
calls this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarojini Naidu | For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet.... |
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