6.3 Shelley英国文学导读.pdf

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Life and Career – Born into a wealthy family at Sussex – Educated first at Eton, then at Oxford – Being expelled from Oxford and disinherited by his headstrong father because of his writing and circulating a pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism (1811), to criticize the existence of God – Eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook in 1811 – His first important poem, Queen Mab, privately printed in 1813, set forth a radical system of curing social ills by advocating the destruction of various established