'i used to think of Shelley as just another one of those dead white poets who wrote difficult poetry for difficult people, but then I learnt how dedicated he was to justice & the liberation of the poor.'
this short piece that ben wrote for percy is just so fucking sweet.
https://benjaminzephaniah.com/my-man-shelley/
('my man shelley')
#benjaminZephaniah #percyByssheShelley #shelley #poetry #literature

Fabulous to be back at Keats Shelley House museum.

#Keats #Shelley #Byron #GlobalRomanticism

/me tippt ins suchfenster von #google 'shelley' und kriegt auf der ersten Seite zurück: 9 Treffer zu Percy Bysshe #Shelley und einen zu - nein, nicht der Schriftstellerin Mary Shelley, der Autorin von Frankenstein.

Nein, ich kriege als 9. von 10 Treffern auf der ersten Seite einen Link zu WLAN-Steckdosen, die sich aber 'shelly' schreiben.

#Tippfehler schlägt Autorin eines der einflussreichsten Bücher der englischsprachigen Literatur. Ich glaub man nennt das #sexismus.

“Disenchantment, when it came…was total.” #Byron #Shelley #MaryShelley

Whilst I'm always really delighted to receive birthday and Christmas books, I've noticed I have the really bad habit of putting them in nice TBR piles and forgetting about them... Which is very naught, but there are always so many bookish distractions! I *have* read and loved books which were kindly sent by Ali and Jacqui, but I was browsing through the stack recently and my eye was caught by one of…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/disenchantment-when-it-came-was-total-byron-shelley-maryshelley/

Usually, when we think about horror or uncanny #literature in the 19th century, we think of Mary #Shelley, Bram #Stoker, Edgar Allan #Poe or even the Penny Dreadfuls. All of which are very anglo- or in case of Poe US centered. But the truth is that Europe has a wide range of uncanny literature. From #Lisbon to #Kyiv. Admittedly not all of them were as prolific as the English, which makes it not less worthy of study or reading!

I edited Shelley's Ozymandias, and realised that, if only five sentences can change the landscape of English literature, as well as public attitudes to ancient civilisations, we should get writing.

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read, which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things -- the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' No thing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away."

#PercyByssheShelley #Shelley #Ozymandias @writing #bookstodon #PeanutButterShelley

Today in Labor History February 23, 1829: The British authorities exposed the Cato Street Conspiracy and arrested all the conspirators. Those involved had planned to murder all the British cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister and overthrow the government. The authorities executed 5 conspirators and exiled 5 others to Australia. No one knows how many people were truly involved in the conspiracy. However, numerous trade unions, Irish Republicans and shoemakers were supposedly ready to support it. They were angry about the Peterloo Massacre and government repression, like the Six Acts that were enacted to suppress any further radical organizing. They were also angry about the ongoing privation caused by the depression. The Peterloo Massacre occurred 10 years prior, when the cavalry massacred at least 19 workers and veterans of the Battle of Waterloo while they were demonstrating for the vote.

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote about the massacre in his poem, “The Masque of Anarchy.” The authorities censored it until 1832, ten years after his death. Mike Leigh’s 2018 film Peterloo is an excellent portrayal of the massacre, and the events leading up to it. Many writers have written novels about Peterloo, including the relatively recent “Song of Peterloo,” by Carolyn O’Brien, and “All the People,” Jeff Kaye. However, perhaps the most important is Isabella Banks‘s 1876 novel, “The Manchester Man,” since she was there when it happened and included testimonies from people who were involved.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #CatoStreetConspiracy #peterloo #prison #union #deportation #massacre #novel #poem #poetry #anarchism #books #novel #fiction #poetry #author #writer #shelley @bookstadon

S03-E08 - Bonus - La Ligue des gentlemans extraordinaires

https://skeptikon.fr/videos/watch/e0c530fa-55c0-4530-94e2-f1861d949018

Shelley 5x03 "Shelley Vs Shelley" ★★★★★★★★★★ https://trakt.tv/comments/775464 #Shelley #trakt

I'm about to watch Shelley 5x03 "Shelley Vs Shelley" https://trakt.tv/shows/shelley/seasons/5/episodes/3 #Shelley #trakt

Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea=change
Into something rich and strange

#Shelley

Shelley 5x02 "Brave New World" ★★★★★★★★★☆ https://trakt.tv/comments/772529 #Shelley #trakt

I'm about to watch Shelley 5x02 "Brave New World" https://trakt.tv/shows/shelley/seasons/5/episodes/2 #Shelley #trakt

Shelley 5x01 "On the Road to Damascus" ★★★★★★★★☆☆ https://trakt.tv/comments/766609 #Shelley #trakt

I'm about to watch Shelley 5x01 "On the Road to Damascus" https://trakt.tv/shows/shelley/seasons/5/episodes/1 #Shelley #trakt

Shelley 4x06 "Slaughterhouse Sling" ★★★★★★★★☆☆ https://trakt.tv/comments/762787 #Shelley #trakt

I'm about to watch Shelley 4x06 "Slaughterhouse Sling" https://trakt.tv/shows/shelley/seasons/4/episodes/6 #Shelley #trakt

Today's poem:

With a Copy of Shelley
- by Harriet Monroe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/772640236874383360/with-a-copy-of-shelley?source=share

#poetry #HarrietMonroe #truth #mysticism #insight #zeal #inspiration #shelley #rapture

Shelley 4x05 "Mortal Coils" ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ https://trakt.tv/comments/760076 #Shelley #trakt