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As we negotiate for the Bronte bout, we might recall that it was on this date in 1814 that Percy Bysshe Shelley eloped with then-17-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin… despite the fact that Shelley...
View Article“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and...
A fair copy draft (c. 1817) of Shelley’s “Ozymandias” in the collection of Oxford’s Bodleian Library Shelley’s frequently-quoted and widely-influential sonnet “Ozymandius” has a history that’s...
View Article“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen...
source Readers will know of the evening in 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, when a challenge from her husband-to-be and his friend Lord Byron led Mary Shelley (then, Mary Godwin) to create...
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