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The Palgrave literary dictionary of Shelley by Garrett, Martin

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Classic writings on poetry

Table of Contents: “…Life of Thomas Gray / Samuel Johnson -- Progress of poesy / Thomas Gray -- Observations prefixed to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth -- Biographia literaria, Chapter XIV / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- from The state of modern poetry / Francis Jeffrey -- from On poetry in general / William Hazlitt -- from The four ages of poetry / Thomas Love Peacock -- from English bards and Scotch reviewers / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Poet / William Cullen Bryant -- Poems / John Keats -- from The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Aurora Leigh, fifth book / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Poems / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- from Preface to Leaves of grass, first ed. (1855) / Walt Whitman -- Study of poetry / Matthew Arnold -- Poems / Emily Dickinson -- Proofs of Holy writ / Rudyard Kipling -- Retrospect / Ezra Pound -- Possibility of a poetic drama / T.S. …”
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Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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Atheism for beginners : a coursebook for schools and colleges by Palmer, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Some conclusions; APPENDIX -- SELECT BIOGRAPHIES; Epicurus (342-270 BC); Jean Meslier (1664-1729); David Hume (1711-1776); Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789); Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).…”
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The Continuum encyclopedia of British literature / Encyclopedia of British literature

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Philosophies of beauty : from Socrates to Robert Bridges, being the sources of aesthetic theory / Beauty, Philosophies of

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- John Ruskin (1819-1900) -- Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) -- Richard Lewis Nettleship (1846-1892) -- Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) -- Lyov Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828-1910) -- Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1856-1900) -- Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900) -- George Santayana (1863) -- Henri Bergson (1859) -- Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851) -- Benedetto Croce (1866) -- George Edward Moore (1873) -- Theodor Lipps (1851-1914) -- Sir William Mitchell (1861) -- Clive Bell (1881) -- Roger Fry (1866) -- Samuel Alexander (1859) -- Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917) -- C.K. …”

The Romantic Poets A Guide to Criticism. by Natarajan, Uttara

Table of Contents: “…Critical Extract From T.S.Eliot,'Byron ' ((1937) -- Further reading -- Critical History Canonical Byron:The 1960s and Onwards -- Critical Extract From J.J.McGann,Fiery Dust:Byron 's Poetic Development (1968) -- Further reading -- Critical History Byron and Politics -- Critical Extract From Jerome Christensen,Lord Byron 's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society (1993) -- Further reading -- Useful editions -- Reference material -- Chapter notes -- 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822) -- Critical History From Contemporary Responses to the Twentieth Century…”
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30 great myths about the Romantics / Thirty great myths about the Romantics by Wu, Duncan

Table of Contents: “…Myth 17 Byron was a great lover of womenMyth 18 Byron was a champion of democracy; Myth 19 Byron was a `noble warrior' who died fighting for Greek freedom; Myth 20 Shelley committed suicide by sailboat; Myth 21 Shelley's heart; Myth 22 Keats's `humble origins'; Myth 23 Keats was gay; Myth 24 Keats was killed by a review; Myth 25 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Frankenstein; Myth 26 Women writers were an exploited underclass-unknown, unloved, and unpaid; Myth 27 The Romantics were atheists; Myth 28 The Romantics were counter-cultural drug users.…”
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A History of Romantic Literature by Burwick

Table of Contents: “…Ebenezer ElliottLord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos III and IV; Lord Byron: Manfred; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Samuel Rogers; Coleridge: Principles of Genial Criticism and Biographia Literaria; Coleridge: 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel'; Keats: Networking; Keats: Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion; Keats: 'Eve of St. …”
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Famous and fanciful friends : the book of friends by Adler, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 30. Franz Schubert & Friends; Chapter 31. …”
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Poems for the Millennium / University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry

Table of Contents: “…From Hymns to the Night [5 and 6]Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment; Dejection: An Ode; Urine; Fragments from the Gutch Notebook; Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue; Ne Plus Ultra; Charles Fourier; from The Theory of the Four Movements; The Phalanx at Dawn; Thomas De Quincey; Dream-Fugue: On the Theme of Sudden Death; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Darkness; from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto Three; from Don Juan: Dedication; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year; Giuseppe Belli; Eleven Roman Sonnets: For the Pope; Percy Bysshe Shelley.…”
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People and places of the Roman past : the educated traveller's guide

Table of Contents: “…Marco al Campidoglio, San Sisto Vecchio, and Santa Sabina; Andrew Osborn -- John Keats (1795-1821 CE) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822 CE) at the Keats-Shelley House and the Cimitero Acattolico…”
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The portable atheist : essential readings for the nonbeliever / Essential readings for the nonbeliever

Table of Contents: “…Hannaford Brown --- Omar Khayyam, from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne --- Thomas Hobbes, Of Religion, from Leviathan --- Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise --- David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Of Miracles --- James Boswell, An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq. --- Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Refutation of Deism --- John Stuart Mill, Moral Influences in My Early Youth, From Autobiography --- Karl Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right --- George Elliot, Evangelical Teaching --- Charles Darwin, Autobiography --- Leslie Stephen, An Agnostic's Apology --- Analote France, Miracle --- Mark Twain, Thoughts of God, From Fables of Man Bible Teaching and Religious Practice, From Europe and Elsewhere and A Pen Warmed Up In Hell --- Joseph Conrad, Author's Note to The Shadow Line --- Thomas Hardy, God's Funeral --- Emma Goldman, The Philosophy of Atheism --- H.P. …”
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The New Oxford book of war poetry / Book of war poetry

Table of Contents: “…November, 1806 -- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) -- 44. from The Revolt of Islam -- CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823) -- 45. …”
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