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  • Brydges's long meditation on Lake Geneva describes both its natural and its cultural associations, including Rousseau, Mme de Staël, Calvin, Voltaire, Byron, and the Shelleys.

    The Lake of Geneva 2010

  • Chronologically in order that the Shelleys read them

    Reading 2010

  • Lord Raymond is modeled on poet Lord Byron, whom the Shelleys knew well and who also died young, in 1824.

    Dave Astor: Mary Shelley and 9/11 Dave Astor 2011

  • Lord Raymond is modeled on poet Lord Byron, whom the Shelleys knew well and who also died young, in 1824.

    Dave Astor: Mary Shelley and 9/11 Dave Astor 2011

  • He has had a long career as a Romanticist, specializing in the Shelleys and in women writers of the period.

    About This Edition 2010

  • But at others, she is sympathetic, being more sinned against than sinning, yet another casual victim of the Shelleys, whose self-absorption could be devastating.

    Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010

  • He has published widely on the Shelleys and on Blake, in addition to authoring numerous studies of relations among the arts.

    About this Hypertext 2008

  • He has published widely on the Shelleys and on Blake, in addition to authoring numerous studies of relations among the arts.

    Introduction 2008

  • I teach the Romantics, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, Keats in my high school writing and English classes, along with the sentence, the paragraph, the essay with its thesis and supporting paragraphs.

    Lillia Sarah Sarai 2010

  • For the non-scholar, Hay's group biography of the Shelleys, Byron and their circle is complete bliss: a feat of concision and clear thinking that will remind you why, all those years ago, when you were young and foolish, you were so thrilled by these writers, by their unruly credos and marvellous verse-making, by their frilled shirts and luxuriant hair.

    Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010

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