Percy Bysshe Shelley

...by drunk, horny romantic poets, writing a genius novel about a misunderstood Frankenstein monster during a lost summer with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, as they all pondered the survival of the soul in the face of the coming Industrial...

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...Halloween-y with two more reviews. Today it's "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" by Peter Ackroyd, in which Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet the real Victor Frankenstein. Reviewer Thane Rosenbaum writes: Ackroyd, a...

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...that is) when you view a rushing waterfall. Our vote goes to Arethusa Falls - said to be named for the poem "Arethusa'' by Percy Bysshe Shelley - in White Mountain National Forest. A moderate hike from the parking lot up the roughly 1...

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Keep the lights on, glance over your shoulder, and enjoy. The Original Frankenstein (Or, The Modern Prometheus) by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley and edited by Charles E. Robinson (Vintage, $14) [...] […] Cars, Kisses and Kick Butt...

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...the cold and rainy "year without a summer" caused by a volcanic eruption. Mary Godwin (all of 18 years old), her soon-to-be-husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Byron's physician John Polidori took a summer holiday in a Lake Geneva...

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...sample these little literary shockers. Keep the lights on, glance over your shoulder, and enjoy. The Original Frankenstein (Or, The Modern Prometheus) by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley and edited by Charles E. Robinson (Vintage, $14) [...] […]

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...poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The book opens in Oxford, where Frankenstein and Shelley - whom he refers to as Bysshe - are both students. Bysshe is an unapologetic atheist who gets expelled in 1811 for writing a pamphlet in favor of atheism,...

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A new edition of 'Frankenstein' shows the contributions of her husband, Percy. Plus: In praise of Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol'; why is the Bilderberg Group so secret? How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein"? Did that...

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...work as "neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium". In turn, Byron got it in the neck from Percy Bysshe Shelley, who described his fellow poet's work as "mischievous insanity". Shelley blamed...

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It turns out, though, that he was a conscientious helpmate. By examining Mary's original drafts, Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson identified Percy's contributions to Frankenstein and, in 1996, edited a reproduction of Mary's notebooks...

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