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A museum in Rome dedicated to the second-generation British Romantic writers. The final home of John Keats, who died here in 1821.

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Book Cover for: Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
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#OTD in 1797 author Mary Shelley was born! Author of Frankenstein, she was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer, and William Godwin, a philosopher. Her father once said that she was ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind.’ https://t.co/dkJXKEJZqh

Paperback, 2017

$11.25$5.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
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#OTD in 1797 author Mary Shelley was born! Author of Frankenstein, she was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer, and William Godwin, a philosopher. Her father once said that she was ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind.’ https://t.co/dkJXKEJZqh

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Poetical Works

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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‘… no poet ever expressed in sweeter, more heart-reaching, or more passionate verse, the gentler or more forcible emotions of the soul.' Mary Shelley in the preface of the first edition of 'The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,' published in 1839. #Shelley200 https://t.co/ylwDXdgBej

Paperback, 2018

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Materials Never Before Printed in any Edition of the Poems, Thomas Hutchinson

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Including Materials Never Before Printed in any Edition of the Poems

Thomas Hutchinson
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‘… no poet ever expressed in sweeter, more heart-reaching, or more passionate verse, the gentler or more forcible emotions of the soul.' Mary Shelley in the preface of the first edition of 'The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,' published in 1839. #Shelley200 https://t.co/ylwDXdgBej

Hardcover, 2015

$51.95$26.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Adonais, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As we approach the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death on 8 July, you can watch a reading of Stanzas from Adonais by much loved actor and Keats-Shelley 200 ambassador Julian Sands. https://t.co/DxWvqOiMgo #KeatsShelley200 #Shelley200 https://t.co/yv8XIFvmND

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Book Cover for: P. B. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry, and Other Essays, Percy Bysshe Shelley

P. B. Shelley: A Defense of Poetry, and Other Essays

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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So lovely to welcome John Keats biographer Lucasta Miller back @Keats_Shelley. We’re thrilled that her new US edition of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph published @AAKnopf is doing so well. Might Lucasta be tempted to write something on PB Shelley or Byron too? https://t.co/hsaKgSkKkK

Paperback, 2012

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Adonais

Shelley
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Our Elegy World Map explores how Shelley's Adonais has influenced later writers and artists. Oscar Wilde was a big fan: https://t.co/ngraessbn6 For more on 2022's Keats-Shelley & Young Romantics Poetry & Essay Prizes: YR: https://t.co/WyXQ6nLQz1 KS: https://t.co/ufb2TJxa0v https://t.co/hUBbXUZYh8

Paperback, 2009

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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Follow the story of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais on our Elegy World Map - for 2022's Keats-Shelley Prizes. We boldly go from Bagni di Pisa via Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Alan Moore, The Cure and Penny Dreadful where no elegy has gone before... https://t.co/QKhMgYbWpu https://t.co/hXzf5ZTe9y

Paperback, 1990

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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#OTD in 1797 author Mary Shelley was born! Author of Frankenstein, she was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer, and William Godwin, a philosopher. Her father once said that she was ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind.’ https://t.co/dkJXKEJZqh

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Book Cover for: Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph, Lucasta Miller

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

Lucasta Miller
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So lovely to welcome John Keats biographer Lucasta Miller back @Keats_Shelley. We’re thrilled that her new US edition of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph published @AAKnopf is doing so well. Might Lucasta be tempted to write something on PB Shelley or Byron too? https://t.co/hsaKgSkKkK

Hardcover, 2022

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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