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Percy Bysshe Shelley -- English Romantic poet and philosopher whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. Shelley was one of the most influential leaders of the literary movement known as Romanticism. Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, a long narrative poem later reissued as The Revolt of Islam, the short odes "To a Skylark", "To the West Wind", and "The Cloud"; the sonnet "Ozymandias"); the verse drama Prometheus Unbound; and the unfinished critical work In Defence of Poetry, among other great literary works.
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Percy Bysshe ShelleyRomantic Poet and Philosopher
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.
died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was the heir to rich estates acquired by his grandfather, Bysshe (pronounced “Bish”) Shelley. Timothy Shelley, the poet's father, was a weak, conventional man who was caught between an overbearing father and a rebellious son. The young Shelley was educated at Syon House Academy (1802–04) and then at Eton (1804–10), where he resisted physical and mental bullying by indulging in imaginative escapism and literary pranks. Between the spring of 1810 and that of 1811, Shelley published two Gothic novels and two volumes of juvenile verse. In the fall of 1810 Shelley entered University College, Oxford, where he enlisted his fellow student Thomas Jefferson Hogg as a disciple. But in March 1811, University College expelled both Shelley and Hogg for refusing to admit Shelley's authorship of The Necessity of Atheism. Hogg submitted to his family, but Shelley refused to apologize to his. |
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