The complete online text of Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds.

In his 1878 biography of the English Romantic poet, John Addington Symonds wrote that the young Percy Bysshe Shelley's intellect and aesthetic sensibilities "sustained him at a perilous height above the ... race of man." The same could well be written of...

As he lay dying in a Roman hotel room in April 1893, John Addington Symonds had good reason to be proud of his literary life. He had left behind a long and impressive list of works: translations, biographies, poetry, criticism, and a significant seven-vo...

Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, ed. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Vol. 1. Pp. xlii+492. $75.00. Scholars wishing to consult an edition of Shelley's complete (or nearly complete) poetry today are in the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume II. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 2004.) 920 $85.00 The second volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley contains the "Esdaile Notebook"...

Today is Saturday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2007. There are 149 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary...