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This page includes anything extra that will contribute to your understanding of the materials we are studyingn in this class.

  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylro Coleridge is an important source of literary allusions in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This link takes you to a text of the entire poem.

  • Shelley also includes a portion of the poem "Mutability" by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Images

These two images serve as important points of reference for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

Michelangelo's Creation Michelangelo's Creation of Man on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above a Sea of Fog Friedrich's Sea of Fog
John D. Schwetman
4 October 2002