Percy Bysshe Shelley

The title-page quotes a French proverb: La fin couronne les oeuvres, or the end crowns the work The dedication to Baillie expresses pride in the friendship, but shame at the idea of comparison between their...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

A number of HEW 's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley , Byron , Eliza Cook

UM 's title and epigraph are taken from a line by Shelley : The desire of the moth for the star, signifying an unattainable love-object. Her volume was introduced by Philip Sherlock , who drew...

Freed as a disabled woman from the expectations of conventional femininity, Olive leads an independent life and struggles to become a successful painter, strengthened by her reading of Shelley and Byron . But she foregoes...

The collection also contained homages to George Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley .

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

The title given these stories may sound sentimental, but in fact it comes from a kind of cake made by a character who, when asked about her health, always replies that this is only one...

Spark's interest in Mary Shelley had first been aroused by reading Ariel, André Maurois' life of Percy Shelley . She said later that writing this book against time for economic reasons and at the...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

The title of A Sensitive Plant comes from the poem of the same name by Percy Bysshe Shelley : his sensitive plant, too, is human, in his case a male poet. The sensitive character depicted...

At this date MB 's favourite poets (Shelley , Byron , Tennyson ) were all male.