The Keats-Shelley Association of America Blog
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Shelley's Sacred Geography
The Keats-Shelley Association of America is excited to announce the return of its virtual event series with a fascinating double feature exploring the intersection of Romantic poetry and Islamic thought.
Reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Mask of Anarchy”
On 16 August 2022, the anniversary of the Peterloo massacre at Manchester (1819), some fifty scholars of British Romanticism gathered to read Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem “The Mask of Anarchy”.
NYPL: Andrew Stott and Melanie Rehak discuss The Poet and the Vampyre
Melanie Rehak and Andrew Stott will discuss Stott’s new book, The Vampyre and the Poet: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature’s Greatest Monsters. Lord Byron spent the summer of 1816 in the Swiss countryside with his friends John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Claire Clairmont. Stott recounts how, at Byron’s suggestion that the group trade ghost stories, Mary Shelley and Polidori created two of literature’s most revered monsters: Frankenstein and The Vampyre, the predecessor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Ye Are Many: Music, Injustice and P.B. Shelley
Ye Are Many—They Are Few, Cantata for a Just World, an art song with text and music by Norman Mathews, was performed 12 May 2014 at the Cultural Center (the former main public library) in Chicago with the VOX3 Collective Company. Mathews’ cantata turns on the problem of standing up to injustice. The tone is solemn. A powerful amount of text comes from Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy.”