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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 It was hastily withdrawn when the publisher, Stockdale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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Finnerty
Woudhuysen, H. R. “Shelley’s fantastic prank”. Times Online, TLS, 12 July 2006.
O’Brien, Paul. “Prophet of the revolution”. The Guardian, 14 July 2006, pp. 16-17.
16-17
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
His first collection, published earlier that year, comprised poems by him and his sister Elizabeth
.