Edited by the historian Alexander Hamilton Thompson, this volume offers an introduction to the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The selection, compiled and introduced by Professor Hamilton, are ...

Yet Percy Shelley for Our Times reveals an even more farsighted writer, one whose poetic methodology went beyond the didactic powers of prophetic art. Not historicist, presentist, or transhistorical, ...

Bill Wyman recites Rudyard Kipling's 'If', a poem his Gran read to him as a child. 9. Percy Bysshe Shelley's Poetical Essay, read by Vanessa Redgrave Admittedly this is not one of Shelley's most ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...

When Frankenstein was first published in 1818, critics were divided. Some were appalled by the lurid details of the writer’s ...

Hip-Hop star Akala and poet Hannah Lowe explore Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ and how it illustrates the transience of power. The clip uses Anthony Gormley's artwork "Another Place" on Crosby ...

My work pays close attention to the workings of poetry to consider the contested significance and singularity of the poet to their culture. My new project is to prepare a new edition of Percy Bysshe ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. More than 200 years later ... Millions of schoolchildren may be rejoicing that poetry can be dropped for GCSEs in England because of the coronavirus disruption.

Above the statue to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner is a small oval mural tablet with a lyre to Romantic poet Percy Shelley. This is joined with a carved swag of flowers to an identical tablet for John ...

The participants included the poet and scoundrel Lord Byron, his sometime girlfriend Claire Clairmont, John Polidori (Byron’s doctor), poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s wife Mary.

Percy Shelley — it is a significant gesture. Kenneth Branagh, the Shakespearean wiz of my dreams, brings that passionate theatricality to this piece, and steers the ship with dramatic heft and ...