Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 .

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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