English country retreatsworth every pound Aug 30, 2008
Alexander House, once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, offers traditional Old School ambiance with its Gothic architectural elements and tasteful antiques. But the Utopia Spa celebrates the 21st-century focus on wellness, offering subterranean plunge pools and a yoga studio. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Chatty Patti Aug 8, 2008
She visits the graves of poets William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley; drops in on her talkative parents in their modest suburban home; fondles Robert Mapplethorpe's ashes, which she keeps in an urn; jams with onetime lover Sam Shepard; tells how Dylan once tuned her guitar; and rants against George W. Bush for "befouling our country's name.". As a child, Smith says, she dreamed of being an opera or jazz singer, but not a rocker. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
A down-home lens on Patti Smith Jul 27, 2008
She visits her parents in New Jersey; she stands at the graves of Blake, Gregory Corso, Percy Bysshe Shelley and others; she goes to Jerusalem and reflects at the Western Wall. Her songs are free-form but somehow ancient sounding: dirges, jeremiads, prayers. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Death, Be Not Proud' -- The Poets and a Media Hero Dying Young Jun 20, 2008
John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Matthew Arnold did that, too, in elegies once read by every schoolchild. In "Adonais," Shelley compares Keats to the God of the Old Testament and to Greek gods of the sun and fertility. (Townhall.com)
Fortunately, the British are coming – with their names Jun 13, 2008
Could Algernon Charles Swinburne and Percy Bysshe Shelley be anything but poets. Can you imagine someone named Beatrix Potter writing horror stories. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Grab a fork for parkway parties Feb 27, 2008
Recipes are from such luminaries as the Greek philosopher Plato, Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Ghandi, English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and others. The setting is Robert Boro's Tower District home, which boasts a formal dining room from the 1930s. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Where there's technology, there will be Luddites Feb 2, 2008
Several years later, Lord Byron spent a summer of intense conversation with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Mary, who was working on her novel "Frankenstein," one of the first books that had as a theme the dangers of technology. Later, Byron's daughter, Lady Ada Lovelace, became a supporter of the English mathematician, philosopher and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage, who in the 1820s attempted and failed to build a computer called the difference engine from brass mechanical parts. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Apocalypse New Jan 18, 2008
" Of course, to be the last man, you have to make it through the apocalypse. TV's Jericho and Battlestar Galactica are about bands of survivors (of nukes and Cylons, respectively). The video game Half-Life 2 is set on an earth conquered and picked over by alien invaders (you play a resistance fighter). And then there's Cloverfield, which opened on Jan. 18 and follows a group of unsuspecting partygoers on the night a massive beast attacks New York City. (See review, page 115.) With apologies to... (Time.com)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bio and Work Nov 20, 2007
Life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of England's finest poets, a contemporary of John Keats, and husband of Frankenstein's creator, Mary Godwin Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born into a wealthy family, in Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex on August 4, 1792, three years older than , another one of finest English Romantic poets. (Suite101.com)
John Keats, Life and Poems Nov 1, 2007
It was Hunt who introduced Keats to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Early career as a Poet. (Suite101.com)
Being Shelley Oct 31, 2007
Has the popular view of Percy Bysshe Shelley as the consummate Romantic more to do with his torrid love affairs than his art ... Similarly, Percy Bysshe Shelley is known as much for his torrid love life as he is for his poem Adonais. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Community : Despite drought, trees give a showing Sep 27, 2007
"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!" Percy Bysshe Shelley. Tell us what you think. (Forest Republican, WI)
LOCAL WRITERS’ CORNER Sep 22, 2007
In 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from university For writing The Necessity of Atheism. He was 19. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Indian leader comes out swinging on nuclear pact Aug 27, 2007
"If winter is here, can spring be far behind?" he said, slightly misquoting poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. A communist leader said the prime minister could be in for "a long nuclear winter.". (Boston Globe)
News Bytes of the Week—Headless Snake Bites Hapless Man Aug 16, 2007
As noted in the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in an 1820 letter to his wife Mary that "vipers kill, though dead." In fact, "decapitated snake heads are dangerous for between 20 and 60 minutes after removal from the body of the snake," Jeffrey Suchard of the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix told earlier that year. So remember: wait an hour before handling a dead snake. (Scientific American)
American tactics all up in the air Aug 10, 2007
apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley. Offensive. (Guardian Unlimited)
Today in History Aug 4, 2007
In 1792, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, England ... Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Yahoo News)
Cruel Britannia Jun 15, 2007
As an English major, myself, I inquired how she enjoyed studying John Milton, Edmund Spenser and my favorite Romantic poets: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. She had not read them. (Washington Times, DC)
Ghost Cities Of 2100 Jun 12, 2007
As the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.". More On This Topic. (Forbes)
The right way to measure college learning Apr 9, 2007
He joined an archaeological dig; learned to write poetry; studied Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jack Kerouac, differential equations, and retaliatory violence; and tutored high school kids in math. He worked hard to pay his way through school. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Germaine Greer Apr 9, 2007
In 1818 when Frankenstein was first published anonymously, with a preface by Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, most reviewers assumed he had written it himself, except for those who suspected that it was written by someone even less experienced than he, perhaps the daughter of a famous novelist, as Mary Shelley was. Marks of inexperience can be found on every page. (Guardian Unlimited)
London Magazine risks retirement Mar 1, 2007
Ben DowellWednesday February 28, 2007. Shelley: contributed to the London Magazine, which was popular with the romantic poets. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Dance Steps to Spirituality Feb 10, 2007
Reading several works by Percy Bysshe Shelley stirred a class discussion regarding whether or not Shelley was true to his claim that he did not believe in God. One student pointed out that in many of his poems, Shelley alludes to God when he credits an unknown force that causes everything to exist and function. (Suite101.com)
Carnivores' dilemma Feb 4, 2007
That notion, reinforced by European knowledge (acquired in the 16th and 17th centuries) of Hindu dietary practices, would provide a persuasive rationale for famous figures as diverse as Carolus Linnaeus, the influential Swedish botanist and classifier; Sir Isaac Newton; Rousseau; Voltaire; the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; and many others. For those who adopted vegetarianism for scriptural reasons there was the widely shared belief that before the great flood humans ate only fruits and... (Boston Globe)
Get ready for Burns' birthday Jan 7, 2007
Besides, there's good reason for Burns' enviable spot in the literary canon: Among various other accomplishments, he pioneered the Romantic movement and inspired writers including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth. The only way to appreciate Burns' skill is by reading his work. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
