Young Mary Godwin falls in love with the poet Percy Shelley, who sweeps her off to Europe despite her family's protests, but she soon realizes Percy's love is more of an obsession, and that obsession is beginning to endanger her life.
Provides a brief biography of English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Shelley works.
A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein's meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting "resurrection men" to deliver fresh bodies to secret laboratory, where the monster is created.
Presents more than fifty works of poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, three of his prose works, and twenty-two essays by such critics as Harold Bloom, Earl R. Wasserman, and Susan J. Wolfson.
