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Percy Bysshe Shelley at 200 – how the poet became famous after his death

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually liberated, vegetarian atheist, living in a reported ménage à trois. He did not…

The Conversation · Jul 8, 2022

Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley's sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation · Jun 19, 2022

Frankenstein: What Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic teaches us about the dangers of playing God

Most significantly, as one of the first works of science-fiction, it explores the dangers of humans pursuing new technologies and becoming God-like.

The New Daily · Jun 19, 2022

Poem of the week: To … by Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Valentine’s Day, we return to one of the first Romantic poems I fell for, which reveals a lot about ‘what men call love’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2022