ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -At the urging of a pregnant Claire, she, Lord Byron, Mary Godwin and Shelley spent the summer of 1816 together in Switzerland. Shelley and Byron developed a close friendship, with both men believing that Byron was the better poet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Byron continued to be close to Percy, who often visited him until Shelley died in 1822. Claire had Byron’s child shortly after the 1816 polycule split up and named her Alba. Byron asked for the child to be sent to him, and Claire, penniless and hoping for better for the baby, agreed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shelley’s circle of friends included poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, who was one of the first to write about vampires. She was married to Byron’s close friend and fellow Romantic poet Percy Shelley. She was also a companion of the Eighth Doctor and an acquaintance of the Thirteenth Doctor.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Born three years apart, Shelley in August 1792, Keats in October 1795, they died in consecutive years, Keats in February 1821 and Shelley in July 1822. And yet the two poets were never exactly friends, and their work is fascinatingly different as well as alike.