Standing up to this suppression and sharing a commitment to liberty were two famous poets, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, celebrated in some circles, a cause for scandal in others.

Inside the furnace the body of the young poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was gradually consumed by fire. Looking on were fellow poet Lord Byron and a friend, who also doubled as master of ceremonies ...

Besides, as Byron’s friend Shelley observed, “Incest, like many other incorrect things, is a very poetical circumstance.” In Byron’s dramatic poem, “Manfred,” the Faustian protagonist ...

The poet Lord Byron—whom Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, her eventual husband, met and befriended while visiting Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816—sought refuge in Switzerland after rumors ...

In bad health, Shelley returned to England with her only ... During a summer in Geneva with Romantic poet Lord Byron and ...

TRELAWNY—Margaret Armstrong—Macmillan ($3). Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange ...

When Byron died fighting for Greek independence in 1824, England collapsed into the kind of mourning we would not see again until the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but Shelley’s death aged 29 in ...

When Byron died fighting for Greek independence in 1824, England collapsed into the kind of mourning we would not see again until the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but Shelley’s death aged 29 in ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and his personal physician, John Polidori, decided to alleviate their boredom by making up horror stories. The two great Romantic poets produced duds; in contrast ...