Shelley, Percy Bysshe

A nineteenth-century English poet; one of the leaders of romanticism. His poems include “To a Skylark,” “Ode to the West Wind,” and “Ozymandias.” Like John Keats, he died at an early age.

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Shelley's second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote Frankenstein.

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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 personal physician, John Polidori, decided to alleviate their boredom by making up horror stories.

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The duo gravitates toward dark, creepy, over-the-top material — they’ve done a “Night of the Living Dead” musical, too — so the famous summer when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori flirted with free love and invented the horror genre must have been irresistible.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 14, 182, 338, 347, 348, 353-355, 356-359, 367, 368.

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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and other poems.

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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters descriptive of a sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni.

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