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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) - Coggle Diagram
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
(1792-1822)
LIFE AND WORKS
Against his conventional background
Rebellion against religions, laws, customs
Republican
Interest in occult sciences, scientific experiments
Phamplet:
The necessity of Atheism
Doubt about existence of God
Ireland: propaganda against Catholicism
First wife: Harriet Westbrook => divorce
Second wife: Mary Godwin
Exile in Italy: works
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais (for Keats)
A defence of Poetry
The Cenci (verse tragedy)
Prometeus Unbound (lyrical drama)
Intellectual rebellion, spiritual liberty, evil on love
POETRY AND IMAGINATION
Poetry as expression of imagination
Revolutionary creativity
VIEW OF NATURE
Not real world
Eternal truth of the divine spirit
Shelter from disappointment of world
TASK AND STYLE
Poet as a prophet
Ideal world
Range of metric and stanzaic forms,
lyric poetry
FREEDOM AND LOVE
Refusal of social conventions, political oppression
Freedom and love