St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in December of that year, dated 1811, in London anonymously as "by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford" while the author was an undergraduate. The main character is Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer, who encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality. The book was reprinted in show more 1822 by Stockdale and in 1840 in The Romancist and the Novelist's Library: The Best Works of the Best Authors, Vol. III, edited by William Hazlitt. The novella was a follow-up to Shelley's first prose work, Zastrozzi, published earlier in 1810. St. Irvyne was republished in 1986 by Oxford University Press as part of the World's Classics series along with Zastrozzi and in 2002 by Broadview Press. show lessTags
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SAINT IRVYNE O EL ROSACRUZ
Antes de convertirse en uno de los más grandes poetas en lengua inglesa, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) probó suerte con un género que loapasionaba: la novela gótica. En 1811, cuando todavía era un estudianteen Oxford, publicó St. Iruyne o el Rosacruz, una obra que seguía con absoluta fidelidad las modas literarias de la época, al tiempo que esbozabamuchas de las preocupaciones que caracterizan su posterior carrera como poeta y ensayista. Una novela que permanecía inédita en nuestro idioma y que descubre al lector una nueva faceta de su autor, la de escritor de literatura de consumo.
St. Irvyne tiene como protagonista a Wolfstein, un héroe romántico
de turbulento pasado y agitado presente, soberbio, show more impetuoso y audaz.
Convertido por accidente en miembro de una peligrosa banda de
salteadores, se enamora de la hermosa rehén Megalena de Metastasio y
concibe un arriesgado plan para liberarla. Pero eso será sólo el principio de
un periplo que lo llevará por toda Europa, siempre perseguido por el
misterioso Ginotti. Ambos personajes, llevados por su desmedida ambición
y su sed de conocimiento, se verán envueltos en una macabra historia
donde intervendrán secretas fuerzas sobrenaturales. show less
Antes de convertirse en uno de los más grandes poetas en lengua inglesa, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) probó suerte con un género que loapasionaba: la novela gótica. En 1811, cuando todavía era un estudianteen Oxford, publicó St. Iruyne o el Rosacruz, una obra que seguía con absoluta fidelidad las modas literarias de la época, al tiempo que esbozabamuchas de las preocupaciones que caracterizan su posterior carrera como poeta y ensayista. Una novela que permanecía inédita en nuestro idioma y que descubre al lector una nueva faceta de su autor, la de escritor de literatura de consumo.
St. Irvyne tiene como protagonista a Wolfstein, un héroe romántico
de turbulento pasado y agitado presente, soberbio, show more impetuoso y audaz.
Convertido por accidente en miembro de una peligrosa banda de
salteadores, se enamora de la hermosa rehén Megalena de Metastasio y
concibe un arriesgado plan para liberarla. Pero eso será sólo el principio de
un periplo que lo llevará por toda Europa, siempre perseguido por el
misterioso Ginotti. Ambos personajes, llevados por su desmedida ambición
y su sed de conocimiento, se verán envueltos en una macabra historia
donde intervendrán secretas fuerzas sobrenaturales. show less
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Born in Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, Shelley was educated at Syon House Academy and Eton, where he acquired the sobriquet "Mad Shelley" for his independent spirit. While at Eton he published Zastrozzi (1810), a Gothic novel. Expelled from Oxford because he refused to retract his atheistic beliefs, Shelley quarreled with his wealthy father show more and was banished from home. Shelley married impulsively and then abandoned his young wife to run off to Italy with the 16-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (the daughter of the radical feminist and the anarchist philosopher, who was eventually to write Frankenstein). While in Italy, Shelley became close friends with Byron, and the two became objects of endless, notorious rumor. Shelley's personal character was revered by almost everyone who knew him. Extremely generous toward others, frugal with himself, he strove tirelessly for the betterment of humanity. Prometheus Unbound (1820), a lyrical drama in four acts, calls for the regeneration of society through love and for the destruction of all repressive institutions. The Cenci (1819), a verse drama based on real events, is one of the few plays from the romantic period still produced. Shelley's lyrics are marvelously varied and rich in sound and rhythm. Wordsworth regarded him as the best artist among living poets.Adonais (1821), written to honor the memory of John Keats, is one of the supreme elegies in English.The Triumph of Life, which was left incomplete at his death, has been hailed by T. S. Eliot as the nearest approach in English to Dante (see Vol. 2). The "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" are anthologized everywhere. Shelley's early death by drowning ended his career just as it was coming into full flower. A revolutionary in his art and life, Shelley is considered by many to be an inspired polemicist and poetic genius. As one of his contemporaries wrote in Etonian (1821), "He is one of the many whom we cannot read without wonder, or without pain. . . ." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
- Original title
- St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
- Original publication date
- 1810
- First words
- Red thunder-clouds, borne on the wings of the midnight whirlwind, floated, at fits, athwart the crimson-coloured orbit of the moon; the rising fierceness of the blast sighed through the stunted shrubs, which, bending before i... (show all)ts violence, inclined towards the rocks whereon they grew: over the blackened expanse of heaven, at intervals, was spread the blue lightning's flash; it played upon the granite heights, and, with momentary brilliancy, disclosed the terrific scenery of the Alps, whose gigantic and mishapen summits, reddened by the transitory moon-beam, were crossed by black fleeting fragments of the tempest-clouds.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let then the memory of these victims to hell and malice live in the remembrance of those who can pity the wanderings of error; let remorse and repentance expiate the offences which arise from the delusion of the passions, and let endless life be sought from Him who alone can give an eternity of happiness.
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