On The Shelley Memorial by Edward Onslow Ford
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This is the audio version of the blog post 'On The Shelley Memorial by Edward Onslow Ford'. It was written by Alexander Bird, who did a student placement with the Courtauld Connects Conway Library digitisation project. It was first published on 10 April 2020. This audio version is read by Christopher Williams, who is a digitisation volunteer.
In this post, Alexander considers how Edward Onslow Ford's memorial for Percy Bysshe Shelley idealised the poet's life and death. The memorial can be found at University College Oxford, where Shelley was once a rebellious student, and depicts a male figure surrounded by allegorical, mythic, and religious details. Alexander discusses how Ford's work is representative of the "New Sculpture" movement of the 19th century, and reflects on how the sculpture affected the way that Shelley and his work have been remembered ever since.
You can find the written version with the photographs on our blog http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/04/10/alexander-bird-on-the-shelley-memorial-by-edward-onslow-ford/
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