Pyramid of Cestius an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime" in "Adonaïs", his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats", in which he
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