Shelleyan

American  

[shel-ee-uhn] / ˈʃɛl i ən /

adjective

1. Also Shellian. of, relating to, or characteristic of Percy Bysshe Shelley or his works.

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noun

1. a student or admirer of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Etymology

Origin of Shelleyan

First recorded in 1840–50; Shelley + -an

Example Sentences

He talked of Greenwich Village now instead of "noon-swirled moons," and met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dream-children with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Most of Mary’s novels present the contrast of the Shelleyan and Byronic types.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

The Shelleyan enthusiast was altogether on the side of existence; he thought that every cloud and clump of grass shared his strict republican orthodoxy.

From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Enthusiasts may, according to their tastes, laud the poet of Byronic worldliness or of Shelleyan otherworldliness.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

Whatever the effects may be on Shelleyan commentators, it must be said that, to the donnish eye, Percy Bysshe Shelley was nothing more or less than the ordinary Oxford poet, of the quieter type.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew