by Percy Bysshe Shelley · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192817242
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Two gothic novels written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, filled with characteristic elements of the genre. 'Zastrozzi' features a relentless villain driven by revenge, while 'St. Irvyne' explores themes of ambition and the supernatural. Both works offer an early glimpse into Shelley's talent and his fascination with the dark and macabre.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
