“it is almost too much for one.”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Brownin…
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culture · English poet (1792–1822) · linguist · poet · translator · playwright · novelist · writer · librettist · also Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Percy Byssche Shelley, Shelli Persi Bish, Shelley
Born 4 August 1792 · Died 8 July 1822 · Q93343
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2026· 9 entries
“are nursed in a systematic school of ill-humour, violence and falsehood”
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“A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.”
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“Song written for an Indian Air”
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“The Serpent is shut out of Paradise”
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“We have now lived five years together; and if all the events of the five years were blotted out, I might be happy”
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“s grave in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church on 26 June. When Shelley told Godwin that he intended to leave Harriet and live with Mary, his mentor banished him from the house and forbade Mary from seeing him. Shelley and Mary eloped to Europe on 28 July, taking Mary”
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siempre.mx: Percy Bysshe Shelley – Esa poderosa atracción
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Warmers and Shelley to get through winter | Brief letters
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2022· 5 entries
The Guardian: From Romantics to 21st century radicals: Coleridge, Shelley and the roots of communal living
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The Guardian: Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption | Kenan Malik
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The Guardian: ‘For him, the poetic was political’: how Shelley stands tall as a great Romantic poet
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The Guardian: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley – archive, 1822
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: To … by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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2006· 1 entry
And subsequently made available online by the Bodleian Library in Oxford
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1913· 1 entry
Was given to the Shelley-Keats Memorial in Rome
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1910· 1 entry
“Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure”
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1903· 1 entry
Supports the Keats–Shelley Memorial House in Rome which is a museum and library dedicated to the Romantic writers with a strong connection with Italy
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1885· 1 entry
By Frederick James Furnivall, and branches were later formed in provincial Britain and abroad, including in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
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1847· 1 entry
And directly influenced the vegetarianism of George Bernard Shaw
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1824· 1 entry
And 1839 were edited by Mary Shelley to highlight her late husband's lyrical gifts and downplay his radical ideas
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1822· 4 entries
Died 1822-07-08.
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“It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.”
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“Shelley, autor poezji niewiernych, utonął; teraz wie, czy Bóg istnieje, czy nie.”
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“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
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1821· 1 entry
Shelley wrote Adonais, which Harold Bloom considers one of the major pastoral elegies
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1819· 1 entry
But first published in 1832) has been called "perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance"
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1818· 1 entry
And over the next four years produced what Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill call "some of the finest poetry of the Romantic period"
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1815· 3 entries
He had four children by his second wife Mary: an unnamed daughter born in 1815 who only survived ten days; William Shelley (1816–1819); Clara Everina Shelley (1817–1818); and Percy Florence Shelley (1819–1889).
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Shelley's father inherited the baronetcy, becoming Sir Timothy Shelley
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Who only survived ten days; William Shelley (1816–1819); Clara Everina Shelley (1817–1818); and Percy Florence Shelley (1819–1889)
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1814· 1 entry
“The Assassins, A Fragment of a Romance”
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1812· 2 entries
“I do not wish to see things changed now, because it cannot be done without violence, and we may assure ourselves that none of us are fit for any change, however good, if we condescend to employ force in a cause we think right.”
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Shelley wrote, published and with Harriet personally distributed in Dublin two political tracts: An Address, to the Irish People; and Proposals for an Association of Philanthropists
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1811· 2 entries
“On the Vegetable System of Diet”
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“Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things”
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1810· 1 entry
Studied at University College, Oxford (1810).
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1806· 1 entry
Was created Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring
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1804· 2 entries
Shelley entered Eton College, a period which he later recalled with loathing
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Studied at Eton College (1804).
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1802· 1 entry
Entered the Syon House Academy of Brentford, Middlesex, where his cousin Thomas Medwin was a pupil
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1792· 1 entry
Born 1792-08-04.
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