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Thomas Jefferson Hogg Thomas Jefferson Hogg
Thomas Jefferson Hogg 1792-1862, friend and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley . He was dismissed in 1811 from Oxford for defending Shelley's atheism. Authorized by Mary Shelley to write a life of her husband, Hogg issued (1858) the first two volumes, which were biased, inaccurate, and overly... Read more
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851, English author; daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft . In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , accompanied him abroad, and after the death of his first wife in 1816 was married to him. Her most notable contribution to... Read more
Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley , 1792-1822, English poet, b. Horsham, Sussex. He is ranked as one of the great English poets of the romantic period. A Tempestuous Life The son of a prosperous squire, he entered Oxford in 1810, where readings in philosophy led him toward a study of the empiricists and the... Read more
Shelley Shelley
Shelley ♀, occasionally ♂ Transferred use of the surname, the most famous bearer of which was the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). The surname is in origin a local name from one of the various places (in Essex, Suffolk, and Yorkshire) named in Old... Read more
Wraith Wraith
Wraith The apparition or double of a living person, generally supposed to be an omen of death. The wraith closely resembles its prototype in the flesh, even to details of dress. There are accounts of people seeing their own wraith, and among those who were warned of approaching death in this way... Read more
Edward John Trelawny Edward John Trelawny
Edward John Trelawny 1792-1881, English adventurer. A friend of Byron and Shelley , he was at Livorno when Shelley was drowned, and later served with Byron in the Greek War of Independence. He wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858), and a partly autobiographical... Read more
Edward Dowden Edward Dowden
Edward Dowden , 1843-1913, English critic, b. Ireland. He is best known as a Shakespearean scholar and as a biographer of Shelley (1886).... Read more
Peterloo Peterloo
Peterloo. The massacre, derisively dubbed ‘Peterloo’, took place in St Peter's Fields (Manchester) on 16 August 1819. A radical reform meeting of 60,000–100,000 people was violently broken up by the local yeomanry who were ordered by the magistrates to arrest the speaker, Henry... Read more
Cosmic Consciousness Cosmic Consciousness
C OSMICC ONSCIOUSNESS I n his classic work, Cosmic Consciousness(1901), Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902) did not presume to place himself in the company of the illumined individuals whose lives he examined in his book, but he did... Read more
Bion Bion
Bion , fl. 2d cent.? BC, Greek bucolic poet, an imitator of Theocritus, b. Phlossa, near Smyrna. Only fragments of his work survive. The Lament for Adonis, attributed to him, was the model for Shelley's Adonais and was translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.... Read more

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