#zastrozzi

[burningvelvet]

Halfwayish through Zastrozzi, the first of Percy Shelley's only two finished novels (for those of you who don't know, he was mainly a poet, but also did prose, essays, plays, songs, pamphlets, etc.) - MY THOUGHTS SO FAR:

- Charlotte Brontë's Shirley is not the only novel currently boring me — I love them both but I can't lie! But like with Shirley, I have hopes that the ending will make the whole of the narrative worth it. And if not... I hope his other novel St. Irvyne is better - and at least they're both short - and I don't expect much of his novel-writing to begin with because it wasn't his primary medium

- The fact that he was eighteen when he wrote this is killing me because the prose is so DRAMATIC and imagining a teenager writing this stuff is cracking me up

- REVENGE! REVENGE! REVENGE! ok we get it

- Many similarities to frankenstein yeah -- and apparently the Wikipedia page has a whole section about this topic

- I love how in the midst of all this dramatic chaotic shit going on in Verezzi's arc there's this sweet old benevolent lady minding her business who basically just wants to adopt him

- Matilda, the love interest, considers drowning herself in the river? Like a certain someone ended up doing? Um?

- Justice for Matilda!!! She doesn't deserve this slander! Okay maybe a little but really she's not that bad and deserves a little grace

- REVENGE! REVENGE! REVENGE! Percy please

- all those shelley scholars who talk about him having a persecution complex really must have been having a field day psychoanalyzing this one huh

- So apparently there's a popular play version of this story and I'm kind of interested to see how the hell they adapted this?

- I regret reading spoilers but I am proud to say that I rightfully suspected there was an intentional use of the gothic double in the work that would eventually have some significant meaning and I was right – much has been written about Percy's use of the gothic double in several of his works as well as his own life, since he is a famous instance of someone claiming to see their own double/real doppelganger, though no one knows if this was induced by mental illness or a drug-induced hallucination, though some people believe that he actually may have had a real life doppelganger(s) because some of Shelley's friends claimed to see him when he was supposedly not around (further fuelling his paranoia). This whole tidbit also has a Wikipedia page section, I believe under the doppelganger entry... anyway!

#literature #english literature #percy bysshe shelley #percy shelley #zastrozzi #gothic literature #gothic novel #book reviews #book review #currently reading #book thoughts #book opinions

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

Black was another color I had a lot of on my shelf. So Thursday is Black. 

#black books #thursday #mary's monster #zastrozzi #the diary of dr. john william polidori #romantic outlaws #the tales of angria #wuthering heights #hearts and other body parts #if we were villains #tash hearts tolstoy #white noise #witchborn #odd & true #save the date #on writing #mary oliver #the asylum for wayward victorian girls #the country girls #be faithful unto death #the shadow queen #passing #stay sexy and don't get murdered #johnathan strange and mr. norell #I've read 11 out of these 22 books #owned tbr #books #my chatter

[theladyofwutheringheights]

#books #literature #lavender #percy bysshe shelley #zastrozzi

[femmefatalegoth]

People are misunderstanding the Victorian use of ‘breast’ so much that I’m half-inclined to make Zastrozzi Daily a thing. 

From what I remember the dumb twink of a protagonist has a very passionate breast. He almost dies from the swirling passions in his breast. As for the two love interests, their breasts almost burst on several occasions. The tumblr reactions would be quite something.

#zastrozzi #dracula daily #hey why not?

[gothiclit]

the fact that both @/belvedere and @/zastrozzi are taken by completely empty blogs is so mephobic actually

#i used the username/name belvedere for quite a while in various places because 13 year old had gender envy for the statue apollo belvedere #for some reason. #as for zastrozzi. well :^)

[bemolesexu]

The cloud by percy bysshe shelley pdf

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           Shelley é famoso por obras tais como Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, e The Masque of Anarchy, que estão entre os poemas ingleses mais populares Percy Bysshe Shelley O'er which clouds are bright'ning, rima completa entre si, e incompleta com “daylight”; na sexta, “cloud” e “loud” formam. A peça retém todos os personagens principais do romance de Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810: Zastrozzi, Verezzi, Julia, Matilda, Bernardo e o Sacerdote (Victor).Encontre diversos livros escritos por Shelley, Percy Bysshe com ótimos preços. I think someone took a pdf of the poem and ran it through some cheap Percy Bysshe Shelley (Field Place, Horsham, 4 de agosto de 1792 — Mar Lígure, Golfo de Spezia, 8 de julho de 1822) foi um dos mais importantes poetas ABSTRACT The objectives of the present work are to perform a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's dramatic poem Prometheus Unbound (1820) and present a Fall of Bonaparte . Lines : The cold earth slept · below". Note by Mrs. Shelley. POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816- · The Sunset · Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Ode to the West Wind_Shelley Pdf - version 2 Percy B. Shelley Analysis of Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley as a revolutionary poet. Its main focus lies on the poetry of Alexander Pope, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats, along with the paintings of more. Seu primo e amigo Thomas Medwin, que viveu nas imediações, contou sua história em "The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley". Passou a meninice de maneira feliz,

https://www.tumblr.com/bemolesexu/697032195058040832/list-of-paronyms-in-english-pdf, https://www.tumblr.com/bemolesexu/697031413360459776/frankly-fresh-turkey-spinach-lasagna-cooking, https://www.tumblr.com/bemolesexu/697031256414765056/technics-rs-bx606-manual, https://www.tumblr.com/bemolesexu/697031144589443072/grundlagen-der-tragwerkslehre-1-pdf, https://www.tumblr.com/bemolesexu/697032195058040832/list-of-paronyms-in-english-pdf.

[weepforadonais]

Her white robes floated on the night air—her shadowy and dishevelled hair flew over her form, which, as she passed the bridge, seemed to strike the boatmen below with the idea of some supernatural and ethereal form.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Zastrozzi.

#percy bysshe shelley #zastrozzi

[cbarriefans]

Chris in Zastrozzi: A Romance in 1986

#Chris Barrie #red dwarf #the brittas empire #Zastrozzi

[plantahmane]

The world you live in.

#Earth #landscapes #Zastrozzi

[theetonatheist]

Y'all I cannot recommend Zastrozzi enough, if just for the ending. It's dramatic and over the top (Verezzi faints a lot, people screaming) but that ending was like... wow. Shelley really got me with a twist ending. I'm going to make a review post soon!

#zastrozzi #Percy bysshe shelley

[aiiaiiiyo]

Went to Scotland recently and took this shot with the 'sphere' setting. It's a bit glitchy, but I love it anyway. North Ayrshire, Scotland, 08/09/2017 [6342 x 5514] Check this blog!

#Zastrozzi #earthporn #earth

[darkacademiacontent]

Percy Shelley✍🏻📜

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born 4 August 1792 at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, he stood in line to inherit his grandfather’s considerable estate and a seat in Parilament. He attended Eton College, where he began writing poetry, and went on to Oxford University. His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810), in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi. After less than a year at Oxford, he was expelled for writing and circulating a pamphlet promoting atheism. At 19, Shelley eloped to Scotland with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook. Two years later he published his first long serious work, Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. The poem emerged from Shelley’s friendship with the British philosopher William Godwin, and it expressed Godwin’s freethinking socialist philosophy. Shelley also fell in love with Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter, Mary, and in 1814 they traveled to Europe. Early in 1818, Percy and Mary Shelley left England for the last time, and went to Italy. During the remaining four years of his life, Shelley produced all his major works, including The Masque of Anarchy, written in response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1818, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound. On 8 July 1822, shortly before his 30th birthday, Shelley was drowned in a storm while attempting to sail from Leghorn to La Spezia, Italy, in his schooner, the Don Juan.

#percy shelley #birthday boy

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

One of my lit professors asked if I was considering getting my PhD. She was very impressed that I a mere grad student actually knew what Percy Shelley’s Zastrozzi was and had read it before. Her specialty is Romanticism and Victorian Lit so that means something that I was able to unintentionally impress her. 

My writing professor said he might also recommend me for an MFA if my writing impresses him. I’m proud of the stories I wrote for his class so hopefully he sees something promising in my work. 

#So mostly only good news today #I needed that #I was surprised though about the phd #I was like me??? #really??? #also Zastrozzi is wild like the novel we read in class #Pretty sure Percy read Otranto and was like here's my take on it #I was going to write my paper on that actually but we had a different assignment #grad school #the life of a grad school English MA #I'm living it now #spiral speaks #the castle of otranto #zastrozzi #percy shelley #writing #irl happenings #what if Zastrozzi is Otranto fanfiction!!!

[the-literata-letters]

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[femmefatalegoth]

Okay, time to ask for a vote on this.

Since other people are doing the mailing list thing with good gothic novels, does anyone want to do it with a gleefully bad one? A delightfully trashy guilty pleasure that makes no sense and is close to my heart anyway?

The one I’m talking about is Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He wrote it as a horny seventeen year old College student and it shows. The whole book is a vaguely kinky fever dream about a sexy twink, the scary villain who hates him and the femme fatale who wants to top him. If you sign up to read it, you will get stuff like this in your inbox twice weekly:

“The grass waved mournfully in the rising blast, as Matilda and Zastrozzi entered a dark and narrow casement.— Cautiously they descended the slippery and precipitous steps. The lamp, obscured by the vapours, burnt dimly as they advanced. They arrived at the foot of the staircase. 

"Zastrozzi!" exclaimed Matilda. Zastrozzi turned quickly, and, perceiving a door, obeyed Matilda's directions.

On some straw, chained to the wall, lay Paulo. "O pity! stranger, pity!" exclaimed the miserable Paulo.

No answer, save a smile of most expressive scorn, was given by Zastrozzi. They again ascended the narrow staircase, and, passing the court-yard, arrived at the supper-room.

"But," said Zastrozzi, again taking his seat, "what use is that fellow Paulo in the dungeon? why do you keep him there?"

"Oh!" answered Matilda, "I know not.”

#dracula daily #zastrozzi

[theamethystvampiress]

My Dover editions of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Zastrozzi/St. Irvyne arrived this afternoon!!

I have been eagerly awaiting this birthday present since February. This was totally worth the wait!!

#Happy #Percy Bysshe Shelley #Gothic romance squeaks #Graveyard Poets #Release the bats #Bring out the hookah pipes it's the gothic regency period writers!!