Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
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"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and published in 1817 in The Examiner and in the Rosalind and Helen collection in 1819.
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" appeared in Rosalind and Helen, 1819.
Percy Bysshe Shelley painted by Amelia Curran in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint
Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and pro
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
…in The Examiner and in the Rosalind and Helen collection in 1819. "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" was written during the summer of 1816 while Percy and Mary Shelley stayed with Lord Byron near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Percy Shelley sent a finished copy of the poem to his friend Leigh Hunt who immediately lost it…
Richard Rothwell's portrait of Shelley was shown at the Royal Academy in 1840, accompanied by lines from Percy Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam calling her a "child of love and light".
Page from William Godwin's journal recording "Birth of Mary, 20 minutes after 11 at night" (left column, fourth row)
The Polygon (at left) in Somers Town, London, between Camden Town and St Pancras, where Mary Godwin was born and spent her earliest years