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Shelleyan, a. (and n.)|ˈʃɛlɪən|
Also rarely Shellyan, Shelleian.
[f. the name Shelley (see def.) + -an.]
Pertaining or relating to, or characteristic of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) or his poetry, or the ideas expressed in his works. As n., an admirer of Shelley.
a1849Poe Marginalia Wks. 1864 III. 544 The Shellyan abandon and the Tennysonian poetic sense. 1880Todhunter Shelley v. 157 A bit of the Shelleyan philosophy. 1886Sat. Rev. 13 Mar. 374/2 Mr. Wise's reprint of Adonais for the Shelley Society is..quite worthy of the attention of Shelleyans. 1886Dowden Shelley I. xii. 523 Why Mary was ‘Pecksie’ must remain a Shelleyan mystery. a1907F. Thompson in Dublin Rev. (1908) July 36 Perhaps none of his poems is more purely and typically Shelleian than The Cloud. 1930Blunden De Bello Germanico 26 Such a bed is not surpassed by the Shelleian shakedown of roses.
Hence Shelleyˈana [ana suffix], books or items relating to Shelley; ˈShelleyism, thought or action characteristic of Shelley; ˈShelleyist, ˈShelleyite, an admirer or follower of Shelley; Shelleyˈolater, a worshipper of Shelley; so Shelleyˈolatry.
1886Academy Mar. 218/2 ‘*Shelleyana’ of all kinds. 1924P. Creswick Beaten Path xxxvii. 203 ‘Had I any books about Shelley?’..‘We have considerable Shelleyana,’ said I. ‘Here is the special shelf.’
1822Lamb Lett. (1888) II. 48 To award his Heaven and his Hell in the presumptuous manner he does, was a piece of immodesty as bad as *Shelleyism.
1934G. B. Shaw Prefaces 506/1 They were *Shelleyists, but not atheists.
1881Athenæum 5 Mar. 329/1 Another sect of devotees..the *Shelleyites.
1898W. Graham Last Links xiii, The infuriated Shelleyan, or rather let me say *Shelleyolater.
1892W. Watson in Bookman Oct. 23/2 Many a reader, not impeachable on the ground of *Shelleyolatry. |