Category Archives: Shelley (Percy Bysshe)

Looking Forward, Not Back

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2021

Seeking to resurrect Troy, Aeneas takes on a challenge also facing America.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 8, 2021

To celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s the moment in “Paradiso” when Dante meets Mary.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 1, 2021

As I remember my eldest son, this Clare Harner Lyon poem brings me peace.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 20, 2021

A case can be made that Byron and Shelley poems had a tangible effect on the 1820s Greek rebellion.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 8, 2021

The brain doesn’t distinguish between reading about something and actually experiencing it. This has interesting implications for lit.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 14, 2020

Robinson Jeffers offers a poem that reminds us of spiritual resources available to us in these dark days.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 29, 2020

Remembering my oldest son, who died 20 years ago, I turn to Shelley’s elegy for Keats.

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