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Tag Archives: Percy Bysshe Shelley
“the wild, passionate and dissolute type of genius”
I have been reading a good number of biographies this year which I am sure you will commend. Probably you remember how I picked up that volume of Ludwig’s Napoleon on the boat and liked it so well that the … Continue reading
Mary Shelley: “What terrified me will terrify others.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’s physician Dr. John Polidori sat around one rainy summer night in 1816- they were neighbors in Switzerland – I mean, damn, I want to be at one of … Continue reading
Commonplace
“Tell me honestly, Cal. Am I as good a poet as Shelley?” — William Carlos Williams to his friend Robert Lowell. This was asked during Williams’ last illness.
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Shelley and Keats
Shelley was a volatile creature of air and fire: he seems never to have noticed what he ate or drank, except sometimes as a matter of vegetarian principle. Keats was earthy, with a sweet tooth and a relish for spices, … Continue reading