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Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and "The Masque of Anarchy." However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished "The Triumph of Life." Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong skeptical voice, made him a notorious and much denigrated figure in his own life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations of poets (including the major Victorian poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Butler Yeats and Subramanya Bharathy). He was also famous for his association with the contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron. An untimely death at a young age was common to all three. He was married to the famous novelist Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein and is possibly responsible for the novel as well.
Life
Education and early works
Shelley was the son of Sir Timothy Shelley, later the 2nd baronet of Castle Goring, and his wife Elizabeth Pilfold. He grew up in Sussex, and he received his early education at home, tutored by Reverend Thomas Edwards of Horsham. In 1802, he entered the Sion House Academy of Brentford. In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College, and on April 10, 1810 matriculated at University College, Oxford . His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810), in which he gave vent to his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi. In the same year, Shelley, together with his sister Elizabeth, published Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. Whilst at Oxford, he issued a collection of verses (perhaps ostensibly burlesque but quite subversive), Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. A fellow collegian, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, is thought to have been his collaborator.In 1811, Shelley published a pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. This gained the attention of the university administration and he was called to appear before the college's academics. He later claimed to have refused to answer all questions about its authorship on principle. His failure to do so resulted in his being sent down from Oxford on March 25, 1811, along with Hogg. The re-discovery in mid-2006 of Shelley's long-lost 'Poetical Essay on the existing state of things', a long, strident anti-monarchical poem printed in Oxford, gives a new dimension to the expulsion, reinforcing Hogg's implication of political motives ('an affair of party'). Shelley was given the choice to be reinstated after his father intervened, on the condition that he would have had to recant his avowed views. His refusal to do so led to a falling out with his father.
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The Necessity of Atheism - from the 1880 edition of The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose http://j.mp/Ec24I
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The Necessity of Atheism - from the 1880 edition of The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose http://j.mp/Ec24I
Life, like a dome of many colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
JimJenkinson (Jim Jenkinson) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:00:58 -0000
Life, like a dome of many colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Photo: âIf Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?â .. Percy Bysshe Shelley http://tumblr.com/xv64xx0cg
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Photo: “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?” .. Percy Bysshe Shelley http://tumblr.com/xv64xx0cg
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. -Percy Bysshe Shelley #quote
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. -Percy Bysshe Shelley #quote
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Defence of Poetry: Part First by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Plain text site, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
In Quest of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Discussions, biography, poetry sampler, and quotations.
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Keats-Shelley Journal - These pages are a service of the Keats-Shelley Journal, which is published (in print form) annually by the Keats-Shelley Association of America.
Leavis on Shelley and Shakespeare - A brief comparison of some lines from Shelly's The Cenci with lines from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
The Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource Page - Includes an extensive bibliographical database; electronic texts of Shelley's letters, essays, and fragments; and links to other useful Shelley resources.
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To a Skylark - A personal appreciation in the form of an essay on the poem.
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