Lord Byron was a strange character and is said to have even drunk out of a skull, adding a morbid layer to his story. Read ...

He was considered by many to take after his grandfather Sir Bysshe Shelley. Grandpa Shelley's parents had emigrated with the family to America and he returned to Blighty a man, and a wealthy man ...

1844) and his wife Elizabeth. His grandfather was Sir Bysshe Shelley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and published some Gothic-horror stories when he was quite young. In 1811 he was expelled from ...

Nevertheless, the foundation decided to give him the award. Nobel went down in history as the inventor of dynamite, but he ...

As a result, “Sally Rooney” has become an abstraction more than a writer — a representative either of our deepest selves or ...

While Italy's Cinque Terre has gorgeous seaside views and quaint towns, this nearby region offers the same captivating sights ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley “Of the great harvest I myself desired.” — Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking” “I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky / And one by one they disappear.” ...

His portrait of Augustine, whom he accuses of “fatalism,” is a caricature. Percy Bysshe Shelley may have been a zealous ...

Stockholm: Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have honoured individuals and organisations for their contributions to humanity, ...

One of the best books ever written about celebrity culture has a very evocative and apt title: Intimate Strangers. That title captures the paradoxical relationship that exists between celebrities and ...

Byron's Bear, an exhibition at the Paragon Gallery in Cheltenham by the artist PJ Crook MBE, imagines an unusual relationship in the life of ...

On Tuesday, 8 October, John Milne, Liberal Democrat MP for Horsham, presented his maiden speech in the House of Commons ...