Download or read book A Defence of Poetry written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelley and Other Essays written by George Herbert Cowling and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Shelley written by Thomas Love Peacock and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic volume contains a collection of Thomas Love Peacock's best essays and reviews, including his "Memoirs of Shelley," a unique and insightful biography of his close friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Contents include: "Memoirs of Shelley," "Part I," "Part II," "Supplementary Notes," "An Essay on Fashionable Literature," "The Four Ages of Poetry," "Jefferson's Memoirs," "Essays on Musical Subjects," "French Comic Romances," "The Epicier," "The Last Day of Windsor Forest," etc. Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866) was an English poet, novelist, and important figure in the East India Company. A good friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, they both had a significant influence on each other's work. Peacock was most famous for writing satirical novels, which usually involved characters sat around a table discussing contemporary philosophical ideas. Other notable works by this author include: "Maid Marian" (1822), "Gryll Grange" (1861), and "Melincourt" (1817). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Essays Letters from Abroad Translations and Fragments written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelley and Other Essays Classic Reprint written by George Cowling and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shelley and Other Essays While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. And he returned, startled and credulous, to tell his sisters romantic fictions which to him were gospel truth. His conventional family spoiled him and could not understand h1m. He was not a colt of the Sussex breed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays is a book by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It consists of extensive romantic lyricism coupled with some picturesque essays by the author.
Download or read book The Endurance of Frankenstein written by George Levine and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-05-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account (and James Rieger has shown the untrustworthiness of its chronology and particulars), only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. The two "illustrious poets," according to her, "annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task." Polidori, too, is made to seem careless, unable to handle his story of a "skull-headed lady." Though Mary Shelley is just as deprecating when she speaks of her own "tiresome unlucky ghost story," she also suggests that its sources went deeper. Her truant muse became active as soon as she fastened on the "idea" of "making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream": "'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party. When several of the contributors to this book discovered that they were all closet aficionados of Mary Shelley's novel, they decided that a book might be written in which each contributor-contestant might try to account for the persistent hold that Frankenstein continues to exercise on the popular imagination. Within a few months, two films--Warhol's Frankenstein and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein--and the Hall-Landau and Isherwood-Bachardy television versions of the novel appeared to remind us of our blunted purpose. These manifestations were an auspicious sign and resulted in the book Endurance of Frankenstein.
Download or read book How to Tell a Story and Other Essays written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defence of Shelley Other Essays written by Sir Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Defence of Poetry written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Letters from Abroad Translations and Fragments written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelley written by George M. Ridenour and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentaries on Shelley's sensitive nature poetry and its place in 19th-century Romanticism.
Download or read book Shelley written by Betty T. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Defence Of Poetry And Other Essays written by Shelley Percy Bysshe and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most well-known poets of the Romantic period, published a collection of essays titled "A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays" in 1818. Several notable articles that provide deep insights on the nature and function of poetry, as well as other subjects including art, politics, and society, are included in this book. In literary criticism, the article with the same title, "A Defence of Poetry," is regarded as a classic. According to Shelley, poetry has a strong influence that goes beyond simple enjoyment and plays a significant part in influencing society. He argues that poetry has the power to spark the imagination, motivate moral and social change, and foster a better knowledge of the human condition. The eloquence, poetic sensitivity, and visionary viewpoint that define Shelley's writing. His work is characterized by a deep trust in the transformational power of art and a sincere excitement for the power of the imagination. In addition to demonstrating Shelley's talent as a poet, "A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays" also demonstrates his breadth of knowledge and dedication to utilizing literature as a tool for social and political reform.
Download or read book In Defence of Shelley Other Essays written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelley Calderon written by Salvador de Madariaga and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary Shelley in Her Times written by Betty T. Bennett and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley’s work . . . A valuable piece of criticism.” —Byron Journal Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley—author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews—emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. Mary Shelley in Her Times brings fresh insight to the life and work of an often neglected and misunderstood writer who, the editors remind us, spent nearly three decades at the center of England’s literary world during the country’s profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley’s neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include her work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband’s poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer. This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women’s studies.
