Percy Bysshe Shelley

(4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)

Study Guide

Compiled by Ralph Dumain


It must be Shelley ’cause Blake don’t shake like that.

On this site:

On atheism:

“There Is No God” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I Will Beget a Son” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[A Refutation of the Christian Religion] (1814?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Necessity! Thou Mother of the World!” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Fragment of A Refutation of Deism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Fragment on Miracles (1813-1815) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Polytheism (1819?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Essay on the Devil and Devils (1819?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley-related:

Ada Lovelace, electricity, ideology & Victorian science, reviewed by R. Dumain

In Esperanto:

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), amiko de Byron, ankaŭ pasigis siajn lastajn jarojn sinekzila en ltalio. Lia persona vivo estis serio de tragikaj eraroj, fontantaj pli el ne prudentaj idealoj ol el kruda egoismo; lia frua morto malebligis finevoluadon de potenca intelekto kaj luma poezia genio. Pionira liberpensulo, vegetarano, liberigemulo plurrilata, li havis riĉan fantazion kaj belege esprimis misterojn kaj ekstazojn de amo, naturamo, libereco. La nuna Antologio donas specimenojn de lia delikata lirika talento; sed pli gravas liaj longaj. poemoj mitofaraj, tri poeziaj dramoj — por la scenejo de la menso pli ol la teatro — kaj kelkaj majestaj odoj.

—M. Boulton, Enkonduko, Angla Antologio II: 1800-1960, p. 11

Odo al la Okcidenta Vento [Ode to the West Wind, 1819] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. K. Kalocsay

Kanto por la angloj [Song to the Men of England, 1819] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld

Al— [To—, 1821] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld

Kanto” (A Song; from: Charles the First, 1819-1822, scene 5) de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. Lajos Tárkony

La indiana serenado (Song written for an Indian Air, 1822; Lines to an Indian Air, 1824; The Indian Serenade) de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. K. Kalocsay, el Eterna Bukedo (1931)

Enkonduko: Resuma skizo pri la angla literaturo post 1800” de Marjorie Boulton

Odo al Najtingalo”[Ode to a Nightingale, 1819) de John Keats, elangligis John Francis

Ĉielo kaj Tero: Mistero [Heaven and Earth: A Mystery, 1821] de Lord Byron, tradukis Eugène Noël

Gvidilo tra la Angla Poezio” de William Auld (el Unufingraj Melodioj, 1960)

Bibliographies & web guides:

Frankenstein at 200: A Very Selective Bibliographic & Web Guide

William Blake Study Guide

History of the Professional Writer & Reading Public / Audiences —The Romantic Era / The Working Class Reader / Literary Form / Division of Labor

Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works

Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links

Ideology Study Guide

Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide

Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography [viz. Wedgwood]

Offsite:

It must be Shelley @ Reason & Society

The Necessity of Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Refutation of Deism (Selected Prose Works of Shelley)

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Project Gutenberg

The Masque of Anarchy by P. B. Shelley with additional contributions (BBC program in commemoration of the 200th anniversay of the Peterloo Massacre)

The Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource Page

Graham Henderson: Home of The Real Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eleanor Marx Speaks!!! The Revolutionary Percy Shelley

Eleanor Marx Battles the Shelley Society!

The Story of The Mask of Anarchy, from Shelley to the Triangle Factory Fire (review)

The First Fab Four

The Shelley Conference – 8-9 July 2022

Keats-Shelley Association of America

Romantic Circles

Romanticism On the Net

Prometheus Unbound

Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts (Wikisource)

Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems (1820)

Prometheus Unbound, in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1914)

Dem[ogorgon].⁠                  If the abysm
Could vomit forth its secrets. But a voice
Is wanting, the deep truth is imageless;
For what would it avail to bid thee gaze
On the revolving world? What to bid speak
Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance and Change? To these
All things are subject but eternal Love.

        — Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act II, Scene 4 (p. 87)

Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Many Lives of Demogorgon, From Scribal Error to 'Stranger Things' by Daniel A. Gross, Atlas Obscura, October 25, 2019.

Byron, Shelley and Heine by Anatoly Lunacharsky, 11th lecture on the history of European literature, Sverdlov Communist University, 1924.

Special topics

Reeves, James Bryant. “Unbelief and Sympathy in Shelley and Hogg’s Letters to Ralph Wedgwood,” Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. 65, 2016, pp. 41-52.

Note Wedgwood’s ‘othiothograph’ and proposed universal language.

Keats-Shelley Journal Feature: James Bryant Reeves, 7 Feb 2018.

Shelley Letters return to Univ, Univ Newsletter, issue 21, Trinity 2005.

Richard Moss, Richard. “Bodleian Library in Oxford Acquires Newly Found Shelley Letters,” Culture24, 20 October 2005.

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Four autograph letters signed to [Ralph] Wedgwood, University College, Oxford. Christie's auction.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe ... letters [4] to Ralph Wedgwood, with letters [4] from TJ Hogg to Wedgwood, Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections, University College MS 210.

En Esperanto

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Vikipedio


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Last update 15 November 2023
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Special update 4 August 2021
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