Elegy for a Dead World Elegy for a Dead World Elegy for a Dead World is a side-scrolling exploration game where the player writes a diary visible to other players. The player explores three worlds inspired by British romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats. While exploring, the player makes notes on their observations. The notes are publicly visible via Steam Workshop. The collective note taking mechanic earned it an honorable mention for the Nuovo Award in the 2014 Independent Games Festival. Developer Ziba Scott credits the theme of the game to his love for British romantic poetry. Shelley's world, for example, was inspired by Percy
Shelley: A Life Story Shelley: A Life Story Shelley: A Life Story is a 1946 biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edmund Blunden. The work was favorably reviewed and has been called the best life of Shelley. "Shelley: A Life Story" received a positive review in "Time" magazine in 1947. The reviewer noted that the book had been "greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet", adding that "Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity—not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which