It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually liberated, ...

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and his ...

What comes to mind when people consider Percy Bysshe Shelley? Too often it’s the blue eyes and fluffy hair of an effete toff poet, a sort of prototype Fotherington-Thomas who, when he wasn’t babbling ...

Hollywood actress Elle Fanning has taken on the titular role of in the upcoming biopic Mary Shelley, depicting an artist as a young woman, finding first love with romantic poet Percy Byshe Shelley ...

Two hundred years after he drowned, Shelley’s poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our own darkening age. By Frances Wilson Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it. Percy Bysshe Shelley ...

When we think of flying objects in art we might not put balloons at the top of our list, and yet they appear everywhere. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel (Fig. 10) and Edward Burne-Jones’s ...

A controversial “lost” poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was a teenager is to go on display to the public for the first time, more than 100 years after it helped get him expelled from ...

Nearly all moviegoers know the plot of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which Mary Shelley precociously wrote at 18. Many of them are also familiar with the novel's backstory, dramatized in ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not achieve literary fame during his lifetime, but today he is one of the most celebrated British poets. Shelley - who wrote during the Romantic period - drowned at sea in ...