Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
PBS is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.

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Textual Production Kathleen Nott
KN published The Good Want Power. An essay in the psychological possibilities of liberalism, titled from a pronouncement of Percy Bysshe Shelley which continues: the powerful goodness want.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
60049 (7 July 1977): 19
Textual Production Kate O'Brien
KOB explores the topic of a lesbian relationship in As Music and Splendour, her last novel, whose title quotation (from a lyric by Percy Bysshe Shelley ) implies that the relationship will not be...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Ogilvy
The End of 1854 exemplifies EO 's political awareness ('Twas a soldier year / We are burying here),
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth.
301
but her sense of politics is rooted in history. Many of these poems relate...
Family and Intimate relationships Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner's instructor and inspiration in political radicalism, Eugene Konecky , was also interested in erotic relations with young girls.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
37, 41
In summer 1927 she took my first lover—probably a young man named...
Education Carola Oman
When CO was eight her father took her on a first visit to the Bodleian Library ; she came home and asked for a bookcase for her next birthday. At this age she worshippedShelley
Publishing Amelia Opie
AO wrote this novel in order to grapple with the events of 1794, a year which saw the end of the Terror in France, but at home the suspension of Habeas Corpus and the treason...
Literary responses Amelia Opie
The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...
Dedications Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP published the long philosophical and historical poem Gabriel, dedicated to the memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 186
Education Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP taught herself to read. By the age of seven she had completed all of Scott 's novels.
Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
265
She learnt both French and German with remarkable ease.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
265
She developed a passionate admiration, and...
Reception Bessie Rayner Parkes
Remembered mostly for her prose contributions to the early feminist movement, BRP also produced poetic creations which deserve not to be dismissed. (Her daughter credits her with admiring the poetry of Percy Shelley and more...
Textual Production Winifred Peck
WP published a novel, Veiled Destinies, titled from a phrase in Shelley 's Adonais (his lament for the death of Keats ).
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2410 (10 April 1948): 201
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The 1888 edition features a sonnet written for Shelley , as well as one written on 29 December 1880 for George Eliot (a week following her death), entitled The Lost Light.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. Sonnets and Songs (1880). Editors Fife, Cody and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints.
19, 11
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Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
221-2
Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...
Textual Features Kathleen Raine
The essay demonstrates connections between Jungian psychology (reaffirming the existence of an archetypal world) and the traditional symbolic language used by poets such as Milton , Shelley , Blake , and Yeats .
Intertextuality and Influence Marion Reid
Using rhetoric similar to that of abolitionists, Reid draws parallels between the plight of women and that of slaves. The title-page asks (in the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley ) Can man be free, if...

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