Shelley's construction of Lionel Verney's immunity remains a subject of significant critical debate, but the novel certainly demonstrates a deep understanding of the history of medicine, specifically the development of the smallpox vaccine and the various nineteenth-century theories about the nature of contagion.

The origins of Shelley's understanding of Beauty and how to attain it can be found within " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ".

The poem's theme is Beauty, but Shelley's understanding of how the mind works is different from Plato's: Plato wrote ( principally in the Symposium ) that Beauty is a metaphysical object existing independent of our experiences of particular concrete objects, while Shelley believed that philosophy and metaphysics could not reveal truth and that an understanding of Beauty was futile.

However, Shelley's version of Jupiter is unable to overwhelm the will of Prometheus, and Shelley gives the power of reason and conscience to his God: the Unseen Power of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.

The beauty of the lake and of the Swiss Alps is responsible for Shelley's elevating what he calls " Intellectual Beauty " to the ruling principle of the universe.

" Power and the Poet: Religious Mythmaking in Shelley's ' Hymn to Intellectual Beauty '.

" The Spirit of Classical Hymn in Shelley's ' Hymn to Intellectual Beauty '.

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* Watson, J. R. " Shelley's ' Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ' and the Romantic Hymn.

The Last Man received the worst reviews of all of Mary Shelley's novels: most reviewers derided the very theme of lastness, which had become a common one in the previous two decades.

Coke became involved in Shelley's Case in 1581, a now-classic case that created a rule in real property that is still used in some common law jurisdictions today and also established Coke's reputation as both an attorney and a case reporter.

* The Rule in Shelley's Case, a principle of the common law relating to property

It is at least as old as Karel Čapek's R. U. R., which introduced the word robot to the global lexicon in 1921, and can even be glimpsed in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( published in 1818 ), as Victor ponders whether, if he grants his monster's request and makes him a wife, they would reproduce and their kind would destroy humanity.

William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.

The same month that Alastor was published, Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The Siege Of Corinth, a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley's generosity rebelled at.

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

Many writers and historians recently have stated Aldini was an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein due to his many public experimentations of bio-electric Galvanism.

While it is true that Aldini did do these attempts at human reanimation during the same time of Shelley's writings, and Forster execution was a sensational notice in the public venue, there is no specific reference that Shelley did actually adapt Aldini into her works despite obviously being aware of Aldini's experiments which were done in public at the Royal College of Physicians in 1803.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's first published work was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi ( 1810 ), about an outlaw obsessed with revenge against his father and half-brother.

This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ).

) Brian Aldiss has argued that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) was the first work of science fiction.

Gandhi's Satyagraha was partially influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action.

" He faulted Metropolis for its premise that automation created drudgery rather than relieving it, wondered who was buying the machines ' output if not the workers, and found parts of the story derivative of Shelley's Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's robot stories, and his own The Sleeper Awakes.

However, recognizable apocalyptic novels have existed at least since the first quarter of the 19th century, when Mary Shelley's The Last Man was published.

Percy Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ) contains the following passage in Act I: " Ere Babylon was dust, / The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, / Met his own image walking in the garden.

For these reasons, Castlereagh appears with other members of Lord Liverpool's Cabinet in Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy, which was inspired by, and heavily critical of, the Peterloo massacre:

* A large section of the manuscript for Mary Shelley's Valperga was lost in the mail to the publisher, and Shelley was forced to rewrite it.

Gregory Corso worshiped Percy Bysshe Shelley as a hero and was buried at the foot of Shelley's Grave in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.

Holm was reunited with Kenneth Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ), playing the father of Branagh's Victor Frankenstein.

Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's verse, and would often quote the poem to vast audiences.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was set at the Ingolstädter Alte Anatomie ( Old Anatomy Building ), now a museum for medical history.

Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was a fictional student at the University of Ingolstadt.

The monster's namelessness became part of the stage tradition as Mary Shelley's story was adapted into serious and comic plays in London and Paris during the decades after the novel's first appearance.

Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the Gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action.

Rousseau's primitivism, the anti-Newtonian mythology of Blake, Coleridge's organic metaphysics, Victor Hugo's image of the poets as the Magi, and Shelley's `` unacknowledged legislators '' are related elements in the rear-guard action fought by the romantics against the new scientific rationalism.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manifests hubris in his attempt to become a great scientist by causing life through technological means, but eventually regrets this previous desire.

Moral Orel is another stop motion based show, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, both created by Dino Stamatopoulos.

Later, more ambiguous songs staked out a territory defined by Shelley's bisexuality and punk's aversion to serious examination of human sexuality.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

The first work of modern apocalyptic fiction in English may be Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, the story of a man living in a future world which is slowly emptied of humanity by a plague.

More recent humaniform examples include the brooms from the legend of the sorcerer's apprentice derived from a tale by Lucian of Samosata in the 1st century AD, the Jewish legend of the golem created like Adam from clay, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Examples of this are Frankenstein ( 1910 ), a film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1920 ), based on the psychological tale by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

( Papers delivered by the Master and three Fellows of University College at a seminar to commemorate the bicentenary of Shelley's birth.

To his research are due, among other matters of literary interest, the first account of Thomas Carlyle's Lectures on periods of European culture ; the identification of Shelley as the author of a review ( in The Critical Review of December 1814 ) of a lost romance by James Hogg ; a description of Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform ; a manuscript diary of Fabre d ' Églantine ; and a record by Dr Wilhelm Weissenborn of Goethe's last days and death.

Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem " To a Skylark " (" Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

The Universal film treated the Monster's identity in a manner that reflects its resemblance to Mary Shelley's novel: the name of the actor, not the character, is hidden by a question mark.

In recent filmmaking, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the creature is interpreted by Robert De Niro in a nearer approach to the original source, even to the point of showing him as a talented flautist, and motivated by pain and loneliness in its murdeous journey.

The possibility goes back to the accusation by Shelley's servants, Elise and Paolo Foggi, that Clairmont gave birth to Percy Shelley's baby during a stay in Naples, where, on 27 February 1819, Percy Shelley registered a baby named Elena Adelaide Shelley as having been born on 27 December 1818.

The lines " The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity " can be read as a paraphrase of one of the most famous passages from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a book that Yeats, by his own admission, regarded from his childhood with religious awe: