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

Thus Wordsworth shrank back into Toryism, as it were, from a Shelleyan extreme of pantheism as yet disembodied.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

These lines, and the great Shelleyan declaration that "A loving worm within its clod Were diviner than a loveless God," are the key to both poems, but peculiarly to the Christmas-Day, in which they occur.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

There are many traces of Shelleyan music and idea in his early poems "Pauline," "Paracelsus," and "Sordello," but no marked nor lasting impression was made upon Browning's development as a poet by Shelley.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

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)

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)