Author: John BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Byron and Shelley; the History of a Friendship
Author: John BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Romantic Satanism
Author: P. SchockPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230513301
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Criticism has largely emphasised the private meaning of 'Romantic Satanism', treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu. Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.
The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe
Author: Paul StockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781349382316
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of 'Europe.'.
History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
History of a Six Weeks' Tour is a travel narrative by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It takes us on a journey through France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, while adding an element of romantic philosophy into the mix.
Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead)
Author: A.J. DayPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411652916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
It was on a 'dark and stormy night', during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky. As the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories. The stories that they read came from a book, originally written in German, that had recently been translated into French. The book that they read from was called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.
A Dark and Stormy Night
Author: Mary ShelleyPublisher: Wilder Publications
ISBN: 9781617209079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenge the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature were birthed. Collected here for the first time are the four works produces as a result of that contest "Fragment Of A Ghost Story" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori, "Fragment of a Novel" By Lord Byron, and of course, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. With a Foreword by Julian T. Reid and Berl A. Boykin.
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
Author: Edward John TrelawnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Bloody Poetry
Author: Howard BrentonPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690389
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This fascinating drama, staged to acclaim in London and New York, has in its cast of characters Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Goodwin. The play is about radicalism artistic, political and more. Taking place in Italy, it concerns the characters' various ideas about radical politics and free love. Along the way, a number of serious questions are raised, not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to be done in by their reprehensible characters. At the end of the play Byron attends the cremation of Shelley on the beach at Viareggio and delivers a stunning ovation over the pyre: "Burn him. Burn us all. A great big bloody beautiful fire."
The Last Man Annotated
Author: Mary W ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel. The book tells of a future world (the first-person narrative is that of a man living at the end of the 21st century) that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s.
The Making of the Poets
Author: Ian GilmourPublisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780786712731
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A dual biography of the two acclaimed poets who came to epitomize the Romantic Era examines the early lives of these two rebellious writers, born into a world of political and intellectual turmoil, who pursued freedom from traditional authority in their politics, poetry, and love, examining their early literary accomplishments, revolutionary ideals, travels, and love affairs.