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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Education Marie Corelli
Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...
Reception Eliza Cook
EC was herself by this date revelling in the popular success of her work, pleased to find another edition of Poems demanded in an age when the public mind seems nearly as much railroaded as...
Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
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Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
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
Textual Production Robert Browning
RB 's Introductory Essay on Shelley appeared in Edward Moxon 's edition of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
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Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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Cultural formation Robert Browning
The metaphysical themes of RB 's verse reflect his eclectic engagement with systems of belief: raised by a Nonconformist mother, he became an atheist as a consequence of reading Shelley
Batho, Edith C., and Bonamy Dobree. The Victorians and After: 1830-1914. Cresset Press.
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before finally turning to...
Textual Production Mary Ann Browne
The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years.
Browne, Mary Ann. Ignatia. Hamilton, Adams.
prelims
Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...
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.
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comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...
Textual Production Caroline Bowles
CB 's letters to the poet she married were published in The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, To which are added: Correspondence with Shelley , and Southey's Dreams.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
MB delivered to the Shelley Society a lecture on Percy Bysshe Shelley at St George's Hall, Langham Place in London.
The lecture drew the attention of the Editor of the Westminster Review.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 1-43.
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Publishing Mathilde Blind
MB 's criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley (a version of a lecture given the previous year) was published in the Westminster Review.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Intertextuality and Influence Mathilde Blind
At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Mathilde Blind
After this MB published, in 1872, a selected edition of Shelley 's poems with a memoir, and in 1886 a fourteen-page, privately printed pamphlet entitled Shelley 's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin 's.

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