In bad health, Shelley returned to England with her only ... During a summer in Geneva with Romantic poet Lord Byron and ...

Besides, as Byron’s friend Shelley observed, “Incest, like many other incorrect things, is a very poetical circumstance.” In Byron’s dramatic poem, “Manfred,” the Faustian protagonist ...

The poet Lord Byron—whom Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, her eventual husband, met and befriended while visiting Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816—sought refuge in Switzerland after rumors ...

He was part of the coterie that, over three waterlogged days in Switzerland, handed up Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre.” Byron attended the beachside cremation ...

TRELAWNY—Margaret Armstrong—Macmillan ($3). Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and his personal physician, John Polidori, decided to alleviate their boredom by making up horror stories. The two great Romantic poets produced duds; in contrast ...

When Byron died fighting for Greek independence in 1824, England collapsed into the kind of mourning we would not see again until the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, but Shelley’s death aged 29 in ...