Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792 8 July 1822
Martin Jaan Leesment
Major works are
long visionary
poems
Approximately 50
readers as his
audience, it is said
that he made no
more than 40
pounds from his
writings.
His father was Sir Timothy Shelley, a Whig
Member of Parliament, and his mother, a Sussex
Prometheus' release from captivity. However, unlike Aeschylus' version, there is no reconciliation between Prometheus and Zeus in Shelley's narrative. Instead, Zeus is overthrown, which allows Prometheus to be released. 1821 A Defence of Poetry is an essay, first published posthumously in 1840. It was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article The Four Ages of Poetry, where Peacock claimed that poetry though beautiful is utterly useless. Shelley argues that poetry brings about moral good, exercises and expands the imagination, and the imagination is the source of sympathy, compassion, and love, which rest on the ability to project oneself into the position of another person. 1822 The triumph of Life an elegy, unfinished, published in 1824 after Shelley died. Characteristics of Shelley's poetry: Themes: beauty, the passions, nature, political liberty, creativity, and the sanctity of the imagination
F.C. of today.) In 1885, he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from tuberculosis and died on 4 July 1906. He married Jean Leckie in 1907, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897 but had maintained a platonic relationship with her out of loyalty to his first wife. Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife (Mary Louise (born 1889) and Alleyne Kingsley (1892 1918)) and three with his second wife (Jean Lena Annette, Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 19 February 1987) (former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton), and Adrian Malcolm). Portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Paget, 1897. In 1890, Conan Doyle studied the eye in Vienna; he moved to London in 1891 to set up a practice as an ophthalmologit. He wrote in his autobiography that not a single patient crossed his door
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Thus the 'decay' Huch laments in late Romanticism renouncing the balance between mind and nature, giving up the spiritual side in favour of indulging in natural drives, leaning towards simplistic folklore and myth, demonstrating lack of receptivity and selfdestructive tendencies is the culturally mediated difference in approach of a new generation of writers. John Keats, Percy Bysshe, Shelley Lord Byron. Poe the literary critic and theoretician. The southern literary messenger the best magazine of its kind. He was very independent, perceptive and articulate (was able to express himself very well), wasn't afraid to criticize. Poe objected to narrow nationalism. The poverty of the arts in America was a direct result of the national preoccupation with money. He was rather harsh on minor authors. Longfellow hated him. The first modern literary
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