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percy bysshe shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822
Biography
Main Works
Themes and style
- revolutionary idealism - the world is moved by inequalities and selfishness→ rebirth of society - poets as heroes, liberators and philosophers - celebration of life and beauty - his work reflect many of the major Romantic themes - intensity of emotion - limitations of human language - contemplations of nature and its element - urgency of his message of spiritual renewal, moral optimism and attention to poetic composition -wide variety of genres and moods
- Born in 1792 into an aristocratic family - Eton College and Oxford University → expelled because of "The Necessity of Atheism" - Harriet Westbrook - Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem and The Revolt of Islam - William Godwin → Mary - Ode to the West Wind, Ozymandias and To a Skylark - Prometheus Unbound - Emgland in 1819 - Adonis → elegy for John Keats - A Defence of Poetry → nature and poetry - Died in 1822
- Pamphlets: The Necessity of Atheism (1811); The Revolt of Islam (1818) - Poems: Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem (1813); Ozymandias (1818); England in 1819 (1819); Ode to the West Wind (1820); To a SKylark (1820); Prometheus Unbound (1820); The Masque of Anarchy (posth. 1832) - Elegy: Adonis (1821) - Essay: A Defence of Poetry (posth. 1840)