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

There are many good Shelleyan reasons why he should elope with Harriet; but among them all I do not find that spontaneous and unsophisticated feeling, which is the substance of enduring love.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

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

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

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)

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