Tag: Percy Shelley

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Percy Shelley’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Love’s Philosophy’ is a poem by the second-generation Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). The poem was published in December 1819 and is one of Shelley’s most accessible short poems. Nevertheless, a few words of analysis may help to illuminate the poem’s meaning. First, […]

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Percy Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘England in 1819’ is a sonnet by the second-generation English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). It’s one of Shelley’s most angry and politically direct poems, although a number of the allusions Shelley makes to contemporary events require some analysis and interpretation to be […]

Literature

A Short Analysis of Percy Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), wrote ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ in 1816 during the same holiday at Lake Geneva that produced the novel Frankenstein (written, of course, by Percy’s wife, Mary Shelley). Below, we offer a summary and analysis of ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, stanza […]