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Shelley

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Shel·ley  (shl), Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1797-1851.
British writer best known for the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822.
British romantic poet whose works include "To a Skylark" (1820), the lyric drama Prometheus Unbound (1820), and "Adonais" (1821), an elegy to John Keats.

Shelley [ˈʃɛlɪ]
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1. (Biographies / Shelley, Mary (Wollstonecraft) (1797-1851) F, British, WRITING: writer) Mary (Wollstonecraft) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797-1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. (Biographies / Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) M, British, WRITING: poet) Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792-1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes `To the West Wind' and `To a Skylark' (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia
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Noun1.ShelleyShelley - English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
2.ShelleyShelley - Englishman and romantic poet (1792-1822)


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On the 4th of August, 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, near the village of Warnham, in Sussex.
No doubt the old cheery publicity is a little embarrassing to the two most concerned, and the old marriage customs, the singing of the bride and bridegroom to their nuptial couch, the frank jests, the country horse-play, must have fretted the souls of many a lover before Shelley, who, it will be remembered, resented the choral celebrations of his Scotch landlord and friends by appearing at his bedroom door with a brace of pistols.
But the odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.
 
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