Shelley

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An English Romantic poet who wrote beautiful poems and had strong ideas for change

proper noun
/ˈʃɛli/

Literature

: Shelley

The revelation in this volume lies in Jane Blumberg's essay: Mary Shelley was no philosemite.
the poet Shelley
Shelley's work
Percy Shelley

You're, you're seeing people use Satan as depicted in Romantic era literature by people like Byron, Percy Shelley and Natal France.

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Examples

At the university, he teaches Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, and more importantly, Shakespeare.

Academic text (2004)
Ugh, England, the land of Byron and Keats, Shelley, Mary Shelley, that is.

The Laureate (2023)
Think of the continuing impact Shelley and Milton have had on poets who think they should know better.

Academic text (1998)
And Mary Shelley said that she wrote this to Leigh Hunt.
The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet, bring our minds into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas.

Bloom (2003)
And in Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, it's interesting how he uses all the Roman names for the gods.

Danny Jones
“Discuss the elegy in its various forms and the poet's place in society “through a comparison of Khalil Gibran, Percy Shelley or John Milton”?

Rites of Passage (2012)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a key figure in the English Romantic movement.
Many of his poems, like "Ode to the West Wind," are attributed to Shelley.
In literature classes, students often study Shelley alongside other Romantic poets.

Synonyms

Percy Bysshe Shelley

vsShelley

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An English Romantic poet famous for lyrical poems and radical ideas

has identical meaning but adds the poet's full personal name

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Shelley comes from old English parts shelf 'a flat ledge' and -ley 'a clearing' or 'meadow'. It originally described someone who lived by a flat ledge or meadow, so Shelley became a place or family name and is now used for the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.