ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the summer of 1816 he settled at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with his personal physician, John William Polidori. There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Shelley’s future wife, Mary Godwin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Medwin (20 March 1788 –2 August 1869) was an early 19th-century English writer, poet and translator. He is known chiefly for his biography of his cousin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and for published recollections of his friend, Lord Byron.

Detailed explanation-3: -Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a British biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shelley had a friendship with both Byron and Keats, but Keats and Byron never met. All of them died away from England and within three years of each other. These three columns were originally published in August, 2020.

Detailed explanation-5: -Percy Shelley is also famous for his friendships with fellow Romantic poets John Keats and Lord Byron as well as his marriage to Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley) who wrote the novel Frankenstein.