Meanwhile, Claire who had been pursuing another married man, Lord Byron, succeeded in becoming his mistress. Claire, Percy, Mary, and baby William traveled to Genoa, Switzerland, to join Lord Byron. On June 22, 1816, 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. ... 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, an...

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In Earl Wasserman'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. ... Many critics feel that it ...

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