Percy Shelley had made a name for himself as a bit of a non-conformist. He was considered by many to take after his grandfather Sir Bysshe Shelley. Grandpa Shelley's parents had emigrated with the ...

Paul Hamilton, Professor of English and Head of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London This book offers a new interpretation of Shelley's major ...

In 1814, while still a teenager, Mary began a romance with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet who was one of her father's political followers. He was already married with a child. Along with her ...

George Gordon Byron, who passed away 200 years ago yesterday, was at once both the Romantic period’s most famous poet and its most scandalous public figure. His love affairs and radical political ...

On the 200th anniversary of his death, two new books explore the life and work of the poet who inspired the Byronic hero — ...

She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life ...

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently ...

Shelley incorporated some of Davy’s writings into her novel, and the 1818 and 1831 prefaces both reference Darwin. Poet Percy ...

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 ...

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 ...

She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the ...

Above the statue to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner is a small oval mural tablet with a lyre to Romantic poet Percy Shelley ... Sussex a son of Timothy Shelley, politician, (d.1844) and his wife ...