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...

She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats and James Shirley , to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt , and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Percy Bysshe Shelley , and writers in French, German, and Italian.

Some critics consider this AH 's finest work, a point of intersection between his social satires and his portraits of cynical characters who eventually journey to mysticism. It has an epigraph from Fulke Greville about...

AJ 's biographical play, Shelley ; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

With this play, Jellicoe deliberately broke with her earlier work by writing a narrative drama based on a pre-existing story. She was attracted to the subject of Percy Shelley's life because it gave her the...

Stevenson describes HCJ as surrounded by brilliant friends. In Paris she became a friend of prominent liberals including Cornelia Turner (to whom Percy Bysshe Shelley had once been romantically attracted), Daniele Manin , Vincenzo Gioberti

MJJ also shows herself independent-minded in her 1831 essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley , who was still generally condemned as an atheist and a revolutionary. Praising Shelley's true, pure, beautiful poetry, she scolds those...

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 .

FK met her future husband and tormentor during the American tour, in Philadelphia, on 13 October 1832. He saw her perform, and courted her. She professed herself initially uninterested in his suit. A...

At her father's death it became necessary for FAK and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an...

In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...

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.

AL acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley , Goethe , Heine , Robert Browning , Swinburne (whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson (the...

The plot concerns an English governess to an Italian family in Rome, who opposes the love which develops between her and the grown-up son. AL plants allusions to Jane Eyre and to famous English...

The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...