Shelleyan

American  

[shel-ee-uhn] / ˈʃɛl i ən /

adjective

1. Also Shellian. of, relating to, or characteristic of Percy Bysshe Shelley or his works.

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noun

1. a student or admirer of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Etymology

Origin of Shelleyan

First recorded in 1840–50; Shelley + -an

Example Sentences

Thus Wordsworth shrank back into Toryism, as it were, from a Shelleyan extreme of pantheism as yet disembodied.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He talked of Greenwich Village now instead of "noon-swirled moons," and met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dream-children with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

There are many good Shelleyan reasons why he should elope with Harriet; but among them all I do not find that spontaneous and unsophisticated feeling, which is the substance of enduring love.

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by Symonds, John Addington

Enthusiasts may, according to their tastes, laud the poet of Byronic worldliness or of Shelleyan otherworldliness.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

The Shelleyan enthusiast was altogether on the side of existence; he thought that every cloud and clump of grass shared his strict republican orthodoxy.

From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)