Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792--1822)
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
壹 Brief introduction 贰 Life 叁 Marriage 肆 Major works 伍 Estimation
Brief introduction
• They got married a few weeks after Harriet’s body was found.
Major works
• The Necessity of Atheism (1811) 《无神论的必然》 • Queen Mab (1813) 《麦布女王》
抨击封建制度的专横无道和英国资本主义制度的剥削， 反映劳动人民的悲惨境遇，引起了英国资本主义阶级的仇 视，1818年被迫侨居意大利。
Second marriage
• During his first marriage he fell in love with Mary Godwin, the author of Frankenstein《科学怪人》, and eloped with her to the European Continent. 私奔到欧洲大陆
• In 1817, stayed at Marlow with John Keats

• In 1818, moved to Italy and formed “Satanic School” with
Byron
“魔鬼的学校”
• On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th
• English Romantic poet
• Who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era.
• In 1811
✓ published his second Gothic novel, St. Irvyne《圣安尔温》
✓wrote an anti-religious pamphlet called The Necessity
of Atheism《无神论的必要》, which made him be
• He eloped with a sixteen-year-old girl, Harriet, to Scotland to get married.
• Unhappy in his nearly three-year-old marriage, Shelley often left his wife and child alone.
— and his wife, a landowner
雪莱爵士—辉格党议员—妻子（地主）
• Received his early education at home
• In 1802, he entered the Syon House Academy • In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College (subjected to an almost
daily mob torment) 几乎每天受到暴徒折磨 • On 10th April 1810, he was educated at Oxford University
• In1810
✓ published his first Gothic novel Zastrozzi《柴斯特罗齐》 ,
birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Livorno to Lerici in his schooner, was later buried in Rome.
•.
Marriage
First marriage
which expressed his atheistic worldview
哥特式小说，无神论世界观
✓ published Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire together with his sister Elizabeth
✓ finished Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson cooperated with Thomas Jefferson Hogg
• 英国浪漫主义诗人
• 他背叛了英语政治和保守的价值观。雪莱没有本 质的区别诗歌和政治,他的作品反映了激进的思想 和革命时代的乐观情绪。
Life
• Born on 4th August, 1792, at Field Place • A son of Sir Timothy Shelley — a Whig Member of Parliament
expelled from the university
反宗教小册子
✓ married Harriet on 28 August
• In 1816
✓ met Byron ✓ Harriet drowned herself in Hyde Park ✓lost his children’s guardianship ✓married Mary Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Category: English Literature Born: August 4, 1792 Field Place near Horsham, Sussex, England Died: July 8, 1822
Viareggio, Italy
•To The Lord Chancellor（1817） 《致大法官》 •Laon and Cythna (The Revolution of the Golden City) (1818) 《莱昂和西斯那》 •The Revolt of Islam (1818) 《伊斯兰的反叛》