John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Engraving after portrait by Joseph Severn. From "Old and New London: A ...

Ann Wroe’s daring new biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most inadvertently comic of the Romantics, reminded me just how Faustian a figure the poet cut. As a student at Oxford ...

The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism To Wordsworth Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never ...

One of the very few books inscribed by the 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley will headline Bonhams’ sale of fine books and manuscripts in London on March 23, with an estimated value ...

Percy Shelley’s 19th-century attacks on marriage, monogamy, and Christianity foreshadowed progressive attitudes today. Shelley, together with contemporaries like the poet William Blake, was known for ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, a prominent Romantic poet, challenged societal norms from his youth, leading to his expulsion from ...

THE DRAMA AND THE TIME. SHELLEY’S lyrical drama, the Prometheus Unbound, is unique in the great cycle of English song. From the larger part of that song it is distinguished at once by an audacious ...

THE author of this monumental biography is a specialist known and esteemed by all students of Shelley. For a good many years past he has been publishing in various periodicals the results of his ...

MARY SHELLEY (275 pp.)—Eileen Bigland —Appleton -Century -Crofts ($4.95). At 16 she ran away with the most attractive young poet of the day, heir to a baronetcy and already married and a father. At 19 ...