Percy Bysshe Shelley课件.ppt

Percy Bysshe Shelley;Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792?– 8 July 1822; pronounced was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. ;He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Alastor, Adona?s, The Revolt of Islam, and the unfinished work The Triumph of Life. ;The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively. He wrote the Gothic novels Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne (1811) and the short prose works The Assassins (1814), The Coliseum (1817) and Una Favola (1819). ;Shelley’s Life;four-year troubles in Italy;1) Zastrozzi, 《柴斯特罗齐??，written when in Eton. 2) The Necessity of Atheism, 《无神论的必要性》，written when in Oxford University 3) Queen Mab, 《仙后麦布》，written when in London. 4) Prometheus Unbound, 《解放了的普罗米修斯》，written when in Italy. ;;Comments on Shelley’s Poetry ; Comments on Shelley;3. He called on the people to overthrow the rule of tyranny and injustice and prophesied（预言）a happy and free life for mankind. 4. He stood for this social and political ideal all his life. ;5. He and Byron are justifiably (justly, rightly) regarded as the two great poets of the revolutionary romanticism in England. ;6. Byron, his best friend, said of Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew”. 7. Wordsworth said, “Shelley is one of the best artists of us all”.;Shelley’s Major Poems