| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge an... | Thomas Frost | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Ode to the West Wind' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Que... | Edmund Gosse | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are ... | John Scott | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known exis... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [romance] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab: a philosophical poem with notes | Manuscript: Unknown, owned by author |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zastrozzi'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shelley's pamphlet.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Laon and Cythna | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Laon and Cythna | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [critique of Rhododaphne] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes' [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Notes to Queen Mab | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi --
by Shelley.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann
Gambs]'.
[reading... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Cenci, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Peter Bell the Third | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833:
'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti... | anon | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Swellfoot the Tyrant | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy the Witch of Atlas' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Witch of Atlas, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840:
''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I hav... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Defence of Poetry, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read S's Adonais.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Adonais' | Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own |
| 1800-1849 | 'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and t... | Percy Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cyclops] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to a Skylark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alastor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must ... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mont Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Posthumous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Marianne's Dream' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845:
'I have read to the last line of your Rosic... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December:
'We have been... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t... | Anne Romilly | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [letters to his wife Harriet] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and ... | Vera Brittain | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome.... | George Otto Trevelyan | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | Members of the XII book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Skylark, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Mary Pollard | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hymn to Intellectual Beauty | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Reginald H. Robson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Victor Alexander | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonaïs | |