The author, John Lauritsen, claims the true credit for the world's first science fiction novel should go to Percy Bysshe Shelley, her future husband, who was present that night.

T.S. Eliot didn’t much care for Shelley’s poetry. That may seem an odd fact with which to start a note about Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), but only if we forget how much Eliot’s critical ...

Film; Films; True story behind Mary Shelley movie - scandalous and tragic real life of woman who created Frankenstein You may know her for her iconic novel but that's not all there is to her story ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was famously inspired by telling ghost stories with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron during a cold, wet summer in the Swiss Alps.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

Born 223 years ago on Aug. 4, the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is celebrated for such works as his sublime odes to the skylark and West Wind. But he was also a radical thinker — and ...

In 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley—poet, dramatist, novelist, activist, critic—wrote a paragraph that would provide the introduction to 1840’s A Defence of Poetry. That essay, which would be ...