Tag Archives: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1821: In Life the Firmest Friend

Posted on June 12, 2018 by corvusfugit

From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading →

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1814: The Fairy Vessel Performed its Little Voyage

Posted on October 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley loved paper boats: Shelley’s walks, when not determined elsewhere, often tended in the direction of a pond at no great distance from Primrose Hill, very proper for the delectable amusement of sailing paper boats; or … Continue reading →

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1822: Murmurs of the Air

Posted on October 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

Despite the fact that Percy Bysshe Shelley had been expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an anonymous pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism, this elaborate memorial was erected to the poet there in 1893. Shelly had drowned off … Continue reading →

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