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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract Far from following the script of the lone Romantic genius, Percy Shelley (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface … reciprocal literary relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > Art and Literature Keywords Percy Shelley Sociability Collaboration circles Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Lord Byron influence ‘A poet is a …

Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… Depuis ses relations amicales nouées sur le sol britannique avec de jeunes prodiges de la littérature romantique (P.B. Shelley, Mary Shelley…) jusqu’aux rencontres sentimentales sur les rivages vénitiens et les affinités politiques autour … ; au club (Politique) de Hampden, ; à celui des Carbonari, Italiens … ‘. En Suisse, Byron se lie d’amitié avec le poète Percy Bysshe Shelley avec lequel il partage les mêmes déchirements romantiques. 3 Curran, Amelia, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1234, 1819 Il s’installe au bord du lac Léman avec la belle-sœur …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… going on to visit the homes of Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Robert Haydon (now ‘jealous Neighbours’), where he also saw Percy Bysshe Shelley (I, 168-69). In chronicling such meetings, Keats’s letter weaves a tapestry of motley social experience, giving … frequented, in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, by such notable thinkers and artists as William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Benjamin Robert Haydon, and John Hamilton Reynolds (all of whom Keats would befriend …

William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]

… a major novelist, although he is perhaps better known today as the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and the father of Mary Shelley. He was the seventh child of thirteen in a family of a Dissenting minister in East Anglia. Against his parents’ … and Thomas Cooper, and Stoddart, George Dyson, Basil Montagu, John Arnot, Patrick Patrickson, and, perhaps most notably, Percy Bysshe Shelley – who ran off with Godwin’s daughter Mary. Another candidate for this group was the young radical Joseph Gerrald, …