poe, shelly, blake
...age of ten. At the age of 16 she ran away to France and Switzerland with Shelley. They married in 1816 after Shelley's first wife had committed suicide by drowning. Their first child, a daughter, died in Venice, Italy, a few years later. Thereafter they returned to England and Mary gave birth to a son, William.The story of Frankenstein started on summer in 1816 when Mary joined with Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont near Geneva Lord Byron. She took a challenge set by Byron and Shelley to write the most frightening ghost story. With her husband's encouragement, she completed the novel within a year. At the Villa Diodati she had been a "silent listener" of her husband and Byron who discussed about galvanism. Edgar Allen Poe was best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Jan 19, 1809, he died Oct. 7 1849 in Baltimore. Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time important theoretical statements on poetry and the short story. He has had a worldwide influence on literature. Blake is one of the major Romantic poets, whose verse and artwork became part of the wider movement of Romanticism in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century European Culture. His writing combines a variety of styles. He is at once an artist, a lyric poet, a mystic and...