Percy Bysshe Shelley pocket was a small book of Keats' poetry. Upon hearing this, Byron (never one to give compliments) said of Shelley: "I never met a man who wasn't a beast in comparison to him" . The day after the news of his death reached England, the Tory newspaper "The Courier" printed: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned; "now" he knows whether there is God or no." A reclining statue of Shelley's body, depicted as washed up on the shore, created by sculptor Edward Onslow Ford at the behest of Shelley's daughter-in-law, Jane, Lady Shelley, is the centrepiece
Edward Bysshe (writer) Edward Bysshe (writer) Edward Bysshe (fl. 1712) was an English writer, remembered for his popular guide "The Art of Poetry" from 1702. While not respectable as a manual on verse-writing, it was used by leading authors. Bysshe's background is unclear. The "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" suggests that either Henry Bysshe of Buxted or George Bysshe of Burstow might be his father. He worked as a hack writer in London. "The Art of English Poetry" (1702) is dedicated to Edmund Dunch and consists of three sections: The work was popular: a fifth edition was issued in 1714; a seventh, "corrected