Percy Bysshe Shelley

The title poem pictures a man skating on a pond; he has the air, though, of a long-distance rather than a pleasure skater, and the poem imagines him going on forever, mounting the crusted waves...

A poem dating probably from early 1950 speaks of her firm conviction of the separateness of music and poetry. There is, she wrote, no music in poems: she never heard in poetry either an organ...

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...

DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...

When she resumed her journal after Percy Shelley 's death she headed it The Journal of Sorrow—Begun 1822. But for my Child it could not End too soon. This new journay is entirely different...

UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...

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. Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...

MS edited and issued Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by her husband and herself.

RB 's Introductory Essay on Shelley appeared in Edward Moxon 's edition of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

STW wrote an opera libretto about the last days of Percy Shelley , The Sea Change, for musician Paul Nordoff , who had been commissioned by Columbia University to write an opera.

KN published The Good Want Power. An essay in the psychological possibilities of liberalism, titled from a pronouncement of Percy Bysshe Shelley which continues: the powerful goodness want.

DW set up her own Penns in the Rocks Press and in conjunction with publishers William Collins produced volumes of Byron and Shelley each illustrated in black-and-white and colour.

KOB explores the topic of a lesbian relationship in As Music and Splendour, her last novel, whose title quotation (from a lyric by Percy Bysshe Shelley ) implies that the relationship will not be...