Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cites

• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: Queen Mab (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante Trita solo; juvat integros accedere fonteis; Atque haurire: juvatque novos decerpere flores.
    FROM: Correspondance de Voltaire, (None), Book, France
• Lucret (1)
  • IN: Queen Mab (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae. Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus; et arctis Religionum animos nodis exsolvere pergo.
    FROM: lib. 4, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Archimedes (1)
  • IN: Queen Mab (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Äïó ðïí óôï , êáé êïóìïí êéíåóï
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Zastrozzi (1810) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: May prove their foe, and with repenting hand Abolish his own works--This would surpass Common revenge.
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, Italy
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Zastrozzi (1810) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: --That their God May prove their foe, and with repenting hand Abolish his own works--This would surpass Common revenge.
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Gennifer Albin (1)
  • IN: Altered (2013) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For know there are two worlds of life and death . . .
    FROM: Prometheus Unbound, (1820), Play, UK
• Kathryn Reiss (1)
  • IN: The Glass House People (1992) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity.
    FROM: Adonais, (1821), Poem, UK
• Jon Skovron (1)
  • IN: The Broken Wondrous World (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
    FROM: Mutability, (1816), Poem, UK
• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: The Well-Beloved (1897) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One shape of many names.
    FROM: The Revolt of Islam (previously Laon and Cyntha), (1817), Poem, UK
• Mark Billingham (1)
  • IN: Lifeless (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hell is a city much like London.
    FROM: Hell, (1839), Poem, UK
• Jane Casey (1)
  • IN: The Stranger You Know (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Some flying from the thing they feared, and some Seeking the object of another's fear... ...And others morurnfully within the gloom Of their own shadow walked, and called it death...
    FROM: The Triumph of Life, (1822), Poem, UK
• Simon Conway (1)
  • IN: The Agent Runner (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
    FROM: Ozymandias, (1818), Poem, UK
• Tessa Harris (1)
  • IN: The Sixth Victim (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I STOOD within the city disinterred, And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passing through the streets…
    FROM: Ode to Naples, (1824), Poem, UK
• Maurice Baring (1)
  • IN: The Black Prince and Other Poems (1902) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: To that high capital where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay.
    FROM: Adonais, (1821), Poem, UK
• Lucy Hounsom (1)
  • IN: Heartland (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
    FROM: Ode to the West Wind, (1820), Poem, UK
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1)
  • IN: Falkner; A Novel (1837) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "there stood In record of a sweet sad story, An altar, and a temple bright, Circled by steps, and o'er the gate Was sculptered, 'To Fidelity'"
    FROM: Rosalind and Helen, (1819), Poem, UK
• Eliot Warburton (4)
  • IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: To glide adown old Nilus, where he threads Egypt and Æthiopia, from the steep Of utmost Axumé, until he spreads, Like a calm flock of silver-fleecéd sheep, His waters on the plain; and crested heads Of cities and proud temples gleam amid, And many a vapour-belted pyramid.
    FROM: The Witch of Atlas, (1820), Poem, UK