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| − | '''Percy Bysshe Shelley''' was born August 4, 1792 in [[Sussex]], [[England]]. He drowned in a storm while traveling from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner on July 8, 1822. Shelley was one of six great early nineteenth century British poets later dubbed the High Romantics (the others being [[William Blake|Blake]], [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[George Gordon Byron|Byron]] and [[John Keats|Keats]].) | + | '''Percy Bysshe Shelley''' was born August 4, 1792 in [[Sussex]], [[England]]. He drowned in a storm while traveling from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner on July 8, 1822. Shelley was one of six great early nineteenth century British poets later dubbed the High Romantics (the others being [[William Blake|Blake]], [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Byron]] and [[John Keats|Keats]].) |
Shelley was an [[atheism|atheist]] his whole life and promoted a religion of the imagination. His epic poem ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imagination/ creative life in the story of Prometheus. Shelley's principle characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon interestingly bear resemblance to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. <ref>(Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)</ref> | Shelley was an [[atheism|atheist]] his whole life and promoted a religion of the imagination. His epic poem ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imagination/ creative life in the story of Prometheus. Shelley's principle characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon interestingly bear resemblance to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. <ref>(Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)</ref> | ||
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England. He drowned in a storm while traveling from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner on July 8, 1822. Shelley was one of six great early nineteenth century British poets later dubbed the High Romantics (the others being Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats.)
Shelley was an atheist his whole life and promoted a religion of the imagination. His epic poem Prometheus Unbound explores his interest in a renewed imagination/ creative life in the story of Prometheus. Shelley's principle characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon interestingly bear resemblance to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, Yeats and Freud. [1]
His major poems include: Alastor, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, Adonis, and the Triumph of Life.
References
- ↑ (Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)