February 2012
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Shelley's Ghost: Exhibition in New York →
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“Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a...”
– Shelley
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Live Reading of Prometheus Unbound in Oxford
Oxford Chamber Theatre will be producing a rehearsed reading by professional actors of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound in St. Peter’s Church, First Turn, Upper Wolvercote, Oxford, OX2 8AQ, on 26 February 2012 at 2.30. Ten actors, experienced verse readers, will read the work, as a concert of voices. David Jones, former leading light in Oxford University music, now studying voice in London,...
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“The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds...”
– “Love’s Philosophy”
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January 2012
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This is my 11,003 post.
morbidezza:
To celebrate here is a picture of Kawaii desu~ Percy Bysshe Shelley that I shooped once upon a time
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“I stood within the City disinterred;
And heard the autumnal leaves like light...”
– from “Ode to Naples”
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“Shelley was an erratic travelling companion. One day he decided to adopt a...”
– from Young Romantics by Daisy Hay (via morbidezza)
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utrieli asked: could you post those shelley penis drawings oh god please
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“In the forehead and head of Byron there was a more massive power and breadth:...”
– Thomas Medwin on Shelley and Byron
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Italian programme about Keats-Shelley House
Click here to watch it. It’s only seven minutes long (and all in Italian), but I thought it might be of interest. It’s mostly about Keats’s life, and it’s filmed inside Keats-Shelley House and also the Protestant Cemetery.
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“The critic William Archer slept very soundly, then fell forward flat on his face...”
– William Archer’s response to a private performance of Shelley’s play “The Cenci” in 1886.
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Shelley's height
Coleridge and Wordsworth were both approximately 5’9”. Keats was 5’1”. Byron was 5’11”. Shelley was “tall”, but how tall? According to one random website he was also 5’11”, but I’ve always been under the impression that he was taller. Perhaps because so many people have commented on Shelley’s tallness, compared to Byron. So...
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COMPETITION
submission from book-of-flights: Have you read or have an opinion on this: http://www.girl-detective.net/sonnet_excerpt.html ?
I hadn’t, but I’ve just read it, so thanks for the submission! As much as I like random Shelley in books, I’m not a fan of mystery books and I don’t think this is particularly well-written…But yeah, I do appreciate the fact that the...
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“lying as he did in bed Edward & Jane came into him, they were in the most...”
– Mary Shelley on Shelley’s visions and nightmares
December 2011
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“His first really fine poem is Alastor. It is written in blank verse, and...”
– from “The Child’s English Literature” by H. E. Marshall (1909)
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“I, thy crystal paramour
Borne beside thee by a power
Like the polar Paradise,...”
– from “Prometheus Unbound” (Act IV)
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"The cold earth slept below"
The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow Beneath the sinking moon.
The wintry hedge was black; The green grass was not seen; The birds did rest On the bare thorn’s breast, Whose roots, beside the pathway track, Had bound their folds o’er many a...
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from "Zastrozzi"
But one evening, maddened by the tender protestations of eternal fidelity to Julia’s memory which Verezzi uttered, her brain was almost turned.
Her tumultuous soul, agitated by contending emotions, flashed from her eyes. Unable to disguise the extreme violence of her sensations, in an ecstasy of despairing love, she rushed from the apartment, where she had left Verezzi, and, unaccompanied,...
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The great secret
“The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.”
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“Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as...”
– “Lines to a Reviewer” by Shelley
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“it is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that...”
– percy bysshe shelley (via fuckyeahveganlife)
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‘And fell, as I have fallen, by the wayside;— Those soonest from whose forms most shadows passed, And least of strength and beauty did abide.
‘Then, what is life? I cried.’—
November 2011
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Quote
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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“A hater he came and sat by a ditch,
And he took an old cracked lute…”
– Fragment: A Hate-Song, by P.B. Shelley A HATER, YOU GUYS. (via junkwhale)
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“…talking it over the next morning he told me that he had had many visions...”
– Mary Shelley