Pyramid of Cestius an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime" in "Adonaïs", his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats", in which he
Tony Walsh (poet) Concert, held in benefit of the attack's victims and their families. It was discussed alongside poems written about earlier atrocities committed in Manchester, including "The Masque of Anarchy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" on 24 May 2017. Walsh is married with two children, and lives in Manchester. His brother, Rev Mike Walsh, is a Minister of the United Reformed Church serving in South Manchester. Tony Walsh (poet) Tony Walsh (born 1965), also known as Longfella, is an English poet, performer and writer. Born into a family of partially Irish descent in east Manchester, the oldest