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 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 Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the actual author of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). An alternate title of the book is "Shelley Unbound: Uncovering Frankenstein's True Creator". Scott D. de Hart, a graduate of Oxford University with a PhD. in nineteenth century English Literature and legal disputes, examined and investigated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s scientific knowledge and experimentation, his two Gothic