Percy Bysshe Shelley Page

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822)



Poetry:

• "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" (U. Toronto);
• "Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude" (Bartleby.com);
• The Complete Poetical Works, Oxford 1914 (The University of Adelaide Library);
• "Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte" (Poem Hunter);
• "Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation" (Bartleby.com);
• "Love's Philosophy" (The Bralyn Archive );
• "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" (Victoria Web);
• "Mutability" (Internal.org);
• "On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" with commentary (Romantic Circles);
• "Ode to the West Wind" (U. Toronto);
• "Ozymandias" (U. Toronto);
• "Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples" (U. Toronto);
• "To a Skylark" (U. Toronto);
• "To Coleridge" (eMule);
• "To Wordsworth" (Romantic Audience Project);
• "The Witch Of Atlas" (eMule);

Prose:

• An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Charlotte (PBS Resource Page);
• Declaration of Rights (PBS Resource Page);
• Dedication to Leigh Hunt, Esq. fr. The Cenci (Bartleby.com);
• Defence of Poetry (Modern History Sourcebook);
• The Necessity of Atheism (PBS Resource Page);

Letters:

• To Leigh Hunt (March 22, 1818) (PBS Resource Page);

Biographical:

• Dan Roberts Raises Shelley's Boat. Trelawny receives letters from his friend, Captain Dan Roberts, describing the recovery of Shelley's boat and his theories about how it went down. He also makes an observation or two on Lord Byron. (Biscayne Bay Review);
• Trelawny Burns Shelley's Body. "Three white wands had been stuck in the sand to mark the Poet's grave,..." (Biscayne Bay Review);
• Trelawny Recovers Shelley's Body. "I told my fears to Hunt, and then went upstairs to Byron. When I told him, his lip quivered, and his voice faltered..." (Biscayne Bay Review);

Essays:

• The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology by Jerome J. McGann (Romantic circles);
• A Close Reading of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind (Romantic Audience Project);
• The Path of Shelley's 'Winged Thoughts' (Romantic Audience Project);
• 'Pecksie and the Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically?' by Nora Crook (Romanticism on the Net);
• Shelley and Socialism by Edward and Eleanor Marx-Aveling (To-Day, April 1888);
• Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis by Grant F. Scott (Romantic Circles);
• "Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's" by Mathilde Blind (1886)(Victorian Women Writers Project);
• 'Some of my Best Friends are Romanticists: Shelley and the Queer Project in Romanticism' by Amanda Berry (Romanticism on the Net);
• '"To Laughter": Shelley's Sonnet and Solitude' by John Bleasdale (Romanticism on the Net);
• 'The Violence of the Sacred: The Economy of Sacrifice in The Cenci' by Robert M. Corbett (Romanticism on the Net);

Images:

• Images of Shelley (National Portrait Gallery);

Articles:

• Mary Shelley's Lost Children's Story Found in Italian Palazzo by Richard Owens (The Times, October 1997);
• Shelley's fantastic prank by H. R. Woudhuysen (Times Literary Supplement, July 2006);
• Trail that led to Mary Shelley's story by Richard Owens (Keats_shelley House);

Miscellaneous:

• American Academy of Poets page (Poets.org);
• Keats-Shelley House (Rome, Italy);
• The Shelley Chronology (Romantic circles);

Other VGS Author Pages:

• Wendell Berry;
• Claudia Emerson (Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Thomas Gray;
• John Keats;
• Ted Kooser;
• Giacomo Leopardi;
• Federico Garcia Lorca;
• Lisel Mueller (Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry); and,
• Pablo Neruda.