How did Frankenstein come about?. When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

A radical poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was just 18 years old can now be read in full despite having been kept under lock and key for the last 204 years.

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the Villa Diodati in Switzerland during those three stormy days and nights in June 1816 when Mary Godwin Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and his ...

A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which experts say will “rewrite” the romantic poet’s biography, is to go on display for the first time in two centuries after it was acquired by ...

The Younger Memnon may be the most well-known because it reportedly inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create the poem "Ozymandias," which was the Greek name for Ramesses II ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not achieve literary fame during his lifetime, but today he is one of the most celebrated British poets. Shelley - who wrote during the Romantic period - drowned at sea in ...

However, the most outsize example of Shelley's feminist influence in Poor Things may lie within the parallels between Bella and Safie, a minor character in Frankenstein, who was inspired by ...

On July 8th, 1822, 177 years ago today, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley set sail across the Gulf of Genoa in his small schooner Ariel to visit his friend Lord Byron in Livorno. He was 30 years of ...