Percy Bysshe Shelley: ... a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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"Yes! all is past and swift time has fled away"
It proved too swift for great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe #Shelley, who died #onthisday 1822, aged 29.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most influential poets in the English language, died today in Italy in 1822, drowned when his sailing boat got caught in a sudden storm in the Gulf of Spezia. At the time he had been working on his last major (and unfinished) poem The Triumph of Life. Read it, and others, in this beautiful art nouveau 1902 collection of Shelley poems adorned throughout with gorgeous illustrations by the English artist and designer Robert Anning Bell: https://publicdomainreview.org/…/poems-of-shelley-illustra…/

Poems of Shelley Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell (1902)

Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, introduction by Walter Raleigh, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell; 1902; George Bell and Sons, London.

A turn-of-the-century edition of Shelley’s best known verse, both epic and short, adorned throughout with gorgeous illustrations by the English artist and designer Robert Anning Bell. Almost a decade after the book was published Bell would go onto become head of design at Glasgow School of Art, and from 1918 to 1924 professor of design at the Royal College of Art, during which time he also worked on a series of mosaics for the Palace of Westminster. The book also boasts an introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh (though not he of swashbuckling fame). On the elaboration of Shelley’s poetry with illustrations Raleigh comments:

There is no great poet who offers a more hopeless task to the illustrator, if by illustration is understood a drawing that helps to the understanding of the poem. But Art begets Art, and there is surely nothing illicit about an embroidery of fair designs suggested by a reading of the poems. If they be found superfluous or irrelevant, they must share that condemnation with the preface.

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2012/12/31 - Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing of him that doth fade,

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange

"What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves."

–Percy Bysshe Shelley, born #OTD 1792. Shelley was an English poet, as well as an important figure in the history of British radicalism and atheism. Mischievous and imaginative as a child, he was conventionally educated at Syon House Academy, Eton College, and University College, Oxford; an upbringing that made him unhappy and rebellious. At school he was bullied as ‘Mad Shelley’ and the ‘Eton Atheist’; at home he was worshipped by a tribe of younger sisters; a pattern that recurs throughout his life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829)
Born	4 August 1792 Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died	8 July 1822 (aged 29) Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater	University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement	Romanticism
Spouse	Harriet Westbrook (m. 1811; d. 1816) Mary Shelley (m. 1816)
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