Pastoral elegy Shelley's "Adonaïs" is a pastoral elegy written by Shelley immediately after hearing about the death of John Keats. The elegy is 495 lines long, consisting of a total of 55 Spenserian stanzas. "Adonaïs" was composed during the spring of 1821 and was eventually published in July 1821. Studying the works of many classical pastoral elegies himself, Shelley admired Milton's poetic voice and form in "Lycidas". Thus, Shelley composed "Adonaïs" specifically in the tradition of Milton's "Lycidas" Introduced to each other by their mutual friend Leigh Hunt in late 1816, Shelley and Keats often exchanged letters of advice about their works
Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator but this one is for the simple reason that reading the novel as a 'ghost story' by Mary Shelley - the standard line - completely misses the point of the book." Leslie S. Klinger, in "The New Annotated Frankenstein" (2017), characterized the book as "thoughtful" but that it argues "that the biographical coincidences of Victor Frankenstein and Percy Shelley are evidence of Percy's authorship". Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator is a 2013 book by Scott D. de Hart, in which the author argues that the poet, dramatist, essayist, and Gothic horror novelist Percy