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PLAY film; runtime 00:12:10. Frankenstein is a 1910 American short silent horror film produced by Edison Studios.It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, who also wrote the one-reeler's screenplay, broadly basing his "scenario" on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. [4]
1821 title page, Charles and James Ollier, London 1820–21 draft of Epipsychidion, Bodleian Library, Oxford Epipsychidion is a major poetical work published in 1821 by Percy Bysshe Shelley . The work was subtitled: Verses addressed to the noble and unfortunate Lady Emilia V—, now imprisoned in the convent of — .
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems is a poem collection by Percy Bysshe Shelley published in 1819. The collection also contains the poems "Lines written on the Euganean Hills", " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ", and the sonnet " Ozymandias ".
His decomposed body, washed ashore ten days later on the beach near Viareggio, is identified by a copy of Keats's Lamia and Isabella in the jacket pocket and cremated there in the presence of his friends Lord Byron and the adventurer Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.
According to Professor X, this android was the inspiration for Shelley's novel. The Monster of Frankenstein, the first five issues of which (Jan.-September 1973) contained a faithful (in spirit at least) retelling of Shelley's tale before transferring the Monster into the present day and pitting him against James Bond-inspired evil organizations.
March – The Noctes Ambrosianae, imaginary colloquies, begin to appear in Blackwood's Magazine ().; June 16 – Mary Shelley suffers a miscarriage.; July 18 – The body of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, is washed up on the beach near Viareggio in Italy, ten days after he left Livorno (where he set up The Liberal magazine with Leigh Hunt) for Lerici, where Shelley had been living with his ...
Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny was born to a family of modest income but extensive ancestral history.
The British Library analysis noted the direct connection to Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc" which was published in 1817 in History of a Six Weeks' Tour. Frankenstein develops the theme of "necessity" which Shelley wrote about in that poem. It is a philosophical idea of the novel. [5] The review related Frankenstein to Percy Bysshe Shelley's own works: