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Hace 2 días · By rewriting the symbol of Christ, Shelley is free to reimagine Christian eschatology in terms that transvaluate the teachings of the English state church. This article sheds light on the religious implications of Prometheus Unbound ’s enigmatic figure Demogorgon, and also contributes to critical conversations on Shelley and Christianity, and the development of Christian doctrine in the ...
Hace 5 días · Byron sailed up the Rhine River into Switzerland and settled at Geneva, near Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Godwin (soon to be Mary Shelley), who had eloped and were living with Claire Clairmont, Godwin’s half sister. (Byron had begun an affair with Clairmont in England.)
Hace 5 días · As Mark and Seamus discuss in this episode, ‘The Masque of Anarchy’, with its incoherence and inconsistencies, amounts to perhaps the purest expression in verse both of Shelley’s political indignation and his belief that, with the right way of thinking, such chains of oppression can be shaken off ‘like dew’.
Hace 9 horas · Percy Bysshe Shelley, a close friend and fellow poet, described Byron’s Italian villa as housing “ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon.”
Hace 5 días · Much like its eponymous character, Frankenstein was followed by tragedy: Polidori committed suicide in 1821; Percy Shelley drowned in 1822; Byron died of fever in 1824. Of Mary Shelley’s four children, only one would survive. Shelley herself died in 1851 at 53 years old. In her 1831 introduction, she wrote of Frankenstein:
Hace 5 días · In 1817 the British Museum announced that soon it would have on display a massive head of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II. The statue did not actually arriv...
Hace 2 días · — Percy Bysshe Shelley. Author’s Note: This is the second installment of stories from decades of teaching a wide array of students from grades K-12.
