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Lecture 7 P.B Shelley Mojiao Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ---- Percy Bysshe Shelley ?  contents 1. His life 2. His major works 3. A close reading of “Ode to the West Wind” 4. Discussion 5. Resources 1. Shelley’s life 1. 1792， Sussex 2. Days at Eton 3. Days at Oxford University 4. Marriage with Harriet Westbrook 5. Marriage with Mary Godwin (Marry Shelley) 作者简介 ????波西·比希·雪莱（1792-1822）出身于贵族家庭，1810年10月进入牛津大学，半年后，因印发《无神论的必然性》（The Necessity of Atheism）小册子而被开除。离开学校后，雪莱来到伦敦，结识了哈丽特（Harriat Westbrook）并与之结婚。1812年，雪莱到爱尔兰，为激励爱尔兰人民争取自由而活动和写作。1814 年 7月雪莱与妻子哈丽特分手，不久与玛丽·戈德温（Marry Goldwin , 即著名女作家Marry Shelley）结合。1818年，雪莱被迫离开英国，到意大利定居。1822年，雪莱在海上遇难，时年30岁。雪莱一生创作勤奋，在去意大利前创作的重要诗作有长诗《麦布女王》（Queen Mab, 1813）和《伊斯兰的反叛》（The Revolt of Islam, 1817）。在意大利生活的最后几年是他创作最旺盛的时期，他先后完成了诗剧《解放了的普罗米修斯》（Prometheus Unbound, 1819）和《钦契》（The Cenci, 1819），以及悼念济慈的《阿多尼》（Adonais, 1821）等。此外雪莱还创作了大量充满激情的政治诗歌和脍炙人口的抒情诗，如《1819年的英国》（“England in 1819”, 1819）和《西风颂》（“Ode to the West Wind”, 1819）等。雪莱的文论著作有《诗辩》（A Defence of Poetry, 1821）。 2. Shelley’s Works 1. The Necessity of Atheism，1811 《无神论的必然》 2. Queen Mab, 1813 《麦布女王》 3. The Revolt of Islam, 1817 《伊斯兰的反叛》 4. Prometheus Unbounded, 1819 《解放了的普罗米修斯》 5. The Cenci, 1819 《钦契》 6. The Masque of Anarchy, 1819, 《暴政的假面具》 7. Song to the Men of England, 1819 8. Ode to the West Wind, 1819 9. “A Defense of Poetry”. 1821 “Kings, priest and statesmen blast the human flower Even in its tender bud; their influence darts Like subtle poison through the bloodless veins Of desolate society.” “…But the poor man, Whose life is misery, and fear, and care; Whom the morn wakens but to fruitless toil; Who even hears his famished offspring’s scream, Whom their pale mother’s uncomplaining gaze Forever meets, and the proud rich man’s eye Flashing command, and the heart-breaking scene Of thousands like himself;--he little heeds The rhetoric of tyranny; his hate Is quenchless as his wrongs; he laughs to scor