Articles related to "Percy Shelley"

A strange gathering of intellectual luminaries during one "haunted summer" produced one of literature's most enduring creations.

With the utmost faith in poetry's ability to reshape the ways in which men think about the world, Percy Shelley believes that poets are the key to society's salvation.

Though Dracula and Lestat are far better known today, modern vampire literature owes a great deal to Polidori's Lord Ruthven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's short chaotic life is brilliantly told by biographer Richard Holmes.

It is often thought that composing was a man's work exclusively. Here are a few British women whose compositions were performed and/or published in their lifetime.

Continuing the guide to the "musts" of the poetry, prose, and plays of eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers and their works...

Want to get in the Halloween spirit? Try an old-fashioned ghost story like Poe's "The Raven" or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Two universities, each subdivided into many colleges - spire inspirations for many writers and works of fantasy...fatal, freakish, and fairytale stories from Oxbridge.

Writing on the subject of the environment includes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, as part of a tradition of literature focusing on nature.

As travel became easier in the Nineteenth Century, many writers expressed their pleasure at reaching destinations to celebrate local dishes in their native countryside.