Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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? She approaches...

In this historically-based essay CD sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. She begins with the worship of the female principle in ancient Egypt, Greece...

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 comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

In 1817 he was sitting up until three in the morning with Percy and Mary Shelley discussing monarchy and republicanism.

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

Stevenson describes HCJ as surrounded by brilliant friends. In Paris she became a friend of prominent liberals including Cornelia Turner (to whom Percy Bysshe Shelley had once been romantically attracted), Daniele Manin , Vincenzo Gioberti

One of ESVM 's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie . Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley and Keats and...

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 .