Bøger af Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude is a long narrative poem written by the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem tells the story of a young poet who is consumed by his own desire for solitude and the pursuit of a pure ideal. The central character, Alastor, is a lonely and isolated figure who spends his life searching for the perfect embodiment of beauty and love. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles and temptations, including the seductive allure of sensuality and the destructive power of ambition. Despite these challenges, Alastor remains steadfast in his quest for the sublime, ultimately sacrificing himself in pursuit of his ideal. Through his portrayal of Alastor's journey, Shelley explores themes of loneliness, isolation, and the human search for meaning and purpose. The poem is characterized by Shelley's signature lyrical style and his use of vivid imagery and metaphor. It is considered one of his most important early works and a significant contribution to the Romantic literary tradition.The Red Volcano Overcanopies Its Fields Of Snow And Pinnacles Of Ice With Burning Smoke, Or Where Bitumen Lakes On Black Bare Pointed Islets Ever Beat With Sluggish Surge, Or Where The Secret Caves Rugged And Dark, Winding Among The Springs Of Fire And Poison, Inaccessible.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Den gamle Francesco Cenci er en ondskabsfuld satan, der har fået sin to ældste sønner slået ihjel og begår både fysiske og psykiske overgreb mod datteren Beatrice og hendes moder. Til sidst bliver det dem for meget, og de to kvinder får ved hjælp af to lejemordere faderen myrdet. Mordet er imidlertid temmelig amatøragtigt udført, og Beatrice, hendes moder og de to medhjælpere bliver efterfølgende dømt af pave Clemens 8. – som ellers har ladet mangt og meget passere, hvad faderens forbrydelser angik – og de bliver henrettet efter passende mængder tortur. Shelleys banebrydende skuespil blev aldrig opført, mens han levede: dets temmelig direkte behandling af emner som mord på forældre og incest var ikke spiselige for datidens moral, og det var først i 1886, The Shelley Society besørgede en privat opsætning. En offentlig fremførelse i England fandt først sted i 1922.

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Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author''s name, as "by P B S.". The first of Shelley''s two early Gothic novellas, the other being St. Irvyne, outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi[1] and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge. An 1810 reviewer wrote that the main character "Zastrozzi is one of the most savage and improbable demons that ever issued from a diseased brain".

"A Defence of Poetry" is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821. It contains Shelley''s famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". The essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock''s article "The Four Ages of Poetry", which had been published in 1820. A Defence of Poetry was eventually published, with some edits by John Hunt, posthumously by Shelley''s wife Mary Shelley in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by Edward Moxon in London.

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in December of that year, dated 1811, in London anonymously as "by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford" while the author was an undergraduate. The main character is Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer, who encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality. The book was reprinted in 1822 by Stockdale and in 1840 in The Romancist and the Novelist''s Library: The Best Works of the Best Authors, Vol. III, edited by William Hazlitt. The novella was a follow-up to Shelley''s first prose work, Zastrozzi, published earlier in 1810. St. Irvyne was republished in 1986 by Oxford University Press as part of the World''s Classics series along with Zastrozzi and in 2002 by Broadview Press.

Pietro Zastrozzi, an outlaw, and his two servants, Bernardo and Ugo, disguised in masks, abduct Verezzi from the inn near Munich where he lives and take him to a cavern hideout. Verezzi is locked in a room with an iron door. Chains are placed around his waist and limbs and he is attached to the wall. Verezzi is able to escape and to flee his abductors, and finally settles in Venice, but Zastrozzi is driven by the blind hatred and doesn't give up on ruining Verezzi's life.

"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays. "St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian" is a Gothic horror novel which retells the destiny of Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer and a disillusioned outcast from society who seeks to kill himself. After he is saved by the monks, he encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian, or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian retells the destiny of Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer and a disillusioned outcast from society who seeks to kill himself. After he is saved by the monks, he encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian, or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley''s best and most well-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats'' death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton''s Lycidas. Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. Some critics suggest that Shelley used Virgil''s tenth Eclogue, in praise of Cornelius Gallus, as a model.

This volume provides a generous selection of his poetry, from the sonnet 'Ozymandias' to famous lyrics such as 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Lines Written among the Euganean Hills', to the longer poems of his maturity, Adonais and Epipsychidion, all thoroughly annotated and presented in chronological order.

Written by Shelley at the age of 17, these novels are of interest 200 years later as early artifacts of the age of the Gothic horror novel.