... , at the age of 18, Mary had her "waking dream" that then inspired her to write Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus (Kimberly Woodbridge Summer of 1816) while staying with Lord Byron. Despite her startling young age, this work was completed in May of 1817, published eight months later on January 1, 1818 (Woodbridge Summer of 1816), and incited a tremendous response from the ... six years later. Although deeply disheartened by his death, he still remained in her heart and acted as an extreme inspiration to the rest of Mary's fictions along with Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, and still ...

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... 's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which Shelley began writing Frankenstein, Byron composed his poem "Prometheus," a celebration of the god's defiance of Jupiter which emphasizes Prometheus" unyielding will, noble suffering, and concern for mankind" ( ... 71). In England, Mary Shelley met another poet who became a close friend of both Byron and the Shelley's, Leigh Hunt, who intensified the connection of the Romantic poets with the Promethean myth. Wasserman declares, "Later, ... 73). Many critics feel that...

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