Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822

The poet who was married to the woman who wrote Frankenstein - and, yes, an important literary figure in his own right. He also wrote, while still an undergraduate at Oxford (that is, before he was expelled for co-authoring The Necessity of Atheism) two Gothic novels, Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne. A number of his poems have Gothic elements as well.

Sites:
Biographical note
Also includes a selected bibliography and a few links [The Academy of American Poets, and no, I don't know what P. B. is doing on a website for American poets...]
Biographical note
[Gale Group Publishing]
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Keats-Shelley House, Rome
Includes a brief biography of PBS as well as information on the house itself and its other famous inhabitants.
[Percy] Shelley Chronology
[Carl Stahmer, UCSB]
Biographical essay
from The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1901)  [Project Bartleby]
The Shelleys and their Circle: A Gothic Family
Part of the Sublime Anxiety exhibit at the U of Virginia.
Biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
Biographical note
Discusses Percy Bysshe as a writer of "natural history" in the Romantic period. [Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College]
Brief biographical note
[Keith Parkins]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Percy Bysshe Shelley Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of several of PBS's works, including Julian and Maddalo and The Cenci.
One of PBS's graves
Yup, he has two.... [PoetsGraves]
Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]


Etexts:
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"Alastor"
- introductory note;
- the poem proper [Project Bartleby]

"A Ballad (Sister Rosa)" (6K) a LitGothic etext
Probably the most delightfully gruesome piece PBS ever wrote. "Half-eaten eyeballs" — doesn't get much better than that.

"Ghasta, or The Avenging Demon!!!" (10K) a LitGothic etext

"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" [U Toronto]
As with "Mont Blanc," this poem is not really "Gothic," but has implications for PBS's understanding of Gothicism and supernaturalism in literature.

"Julian and Maddalo"
- note
- Preface
- "Julian and Maddalo" [Project Bartleby] - at Munsey's / BlackMask
"Mont Blanc" [U Toronto]

Complete Poetical Works.
For The Cenci, PBS's quasi-Gothic play of incest and revenge. [Project Bartleby]

St. Irvyne; or The Rosicrucian
- at Munsey's / BlackMask

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"Victoria" (4K) a LitGothic etext

"The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy" (3K) a LitGothic etext

Zastrozzi
- at Munsey's / BlackMask [multiple formats]


Essays and Reviews:
Keats-Shelley Journal



"Percy Bysshe Shelley."