Shelley

[ shel-ee ]

noun
  1. Mary Woll·stone·craft (Godwin) [wool-stuhn-kraft, -krahft], /ˈwʊl stənˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft/, 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

  2. Percy Bysshe [bish], /bɪʃ/, 1792–1822, English poet.

  1. a male or female given name.

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How to use Shelley in a sentence

  • In this respect, if I remember aright, the family of Shelley were particularly distinguished.

    East Anglia | J. Ewing Ritchie
  • Sometimes he attended the week-night entertainments and gave a reading from Shelley or Whittier or some other poet.

  • "'King Lear' may be recognized as the perfect model of the dramatic art of the whole world," says Shelley.

  • But he was not more Christlike than Wagner when he realised his soul in music; or than Shelley, when he realised his soul in song.

    The Soul of Man | Oscar Wilde
  • He had scarcely arrived at Geneva, when he became intimate with Shelley.

British Dictionary definitions for Shelley

Shelley

/ (ˈʃɛlɪ) /


noun
  1. Mary (Wollstonecraft) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley

  2. Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

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