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published his first book of lyric, gothic, and narrative verse, Original Poetry (written jointly with his sister Elizabeth
) in 1810 at Worthing. It was hastily withdrawn when the publisher, Stockdale
, discerned...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The young Percy Bysshe Shelley
, helped by his sister Elizabeth
, expressed anger in a political poem, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, about the treatment of Irish journalist Peter Finnerty
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Finnerty
Woudhuysen, H. R. “Shelley’s fantastic prank”. Times Online, TLS.
O’Brien, Paul. “Prophet of the revolution”. The Guardian, pp. 16 -17.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
His first collection, published earlier that year, comprised poems by him and his sister Elizabeth
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