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Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) - Coggle Diagram
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
Life:
He was born on 4 August 1792 in Sussex.
He studied at Oxford university from which he was expelled because of a radical pamphlet, “The Necessity of Atheism".
married to 16 years old Harriet Westbrook. some years later he ran away with Mary Godwin, daughter of William Godwin
In 1818 shelley and mary left England and settled in Italy.
He died in 1822, while sailing in the bay of Spezia near Lerici.
Main works:
1817: “The revolt of Islam”: a revolutionary poem about the power of love
1819: “Ode to the west wind”.
1819: “The Cency”, a verse tragedy.
1820: “Prometheus Unbound”, a lyrical drama dealing with the theme of intellectual rebellion.
1821: “A Defence of poetry”: an unfinished essay concerning the importance of poetry.
Shelley works reveal:
His restless spirit.
His refusal of social conventions and political oppression.
His faith in a better future
He believed in freedom and love.
His poetry:
was the expression of imagination.
Can be understood as revolutionary creativity, seriously meant to change the reality of an increasingly material world.
Shelley’s nature:
Unlike Wordsworth it is not the real world.
It is a beautiful veil that hides the eternal truth of the divine spirit.
It provides the poet with beautiful images, such as the wind.
The favourite refuge from the disappointment and injustice of the ordinary world.