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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 the six great English [[poet]]s of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries later dubbed the High [[Romantic]]s (the others being [[William Blake|Blake]], [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[George Gordon, Lord 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 the six great English [[poet]]s of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries later dubbed the High [[Romantic]]s (the others being [[William Blake|Blake]], [[William Wordsworth|Wordsworth]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Byron]] and [[John Keats|Keats]].) |
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| − | Shelley was anti-religious and a [[skeptic]] his whole life and promoted a poetic program similar to Blake's, in which the individual imagination is the sole authority on matters of truth. His [[play]] in verse ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imaginative and creative life in the story of [[Prometheus]]. In critic [[Harold Bloom]]'s reading, the play's characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon bear resemblances 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'', New York: Cornell UP, 1971, pp. 90-91.</ref> | + | Shelley was anti-religious and an atheist his whole life<ref>Shelley, [http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/necessity1880.html The Necessity of Atheism]</ref> and promoted a poetic program similar to Blake's, in which the individual imagination is the sole authority on matters of truth. His [[play]] in verse ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imaginative and creative life in the story of [[Prometheus]]. In critic [[Harold Bloom]]'s reading, the play's characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon bear resemblances 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'', New York: Cornell UP, 1971, pp. 90-91.</ref> |
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| | Other major poems written by Shelley include "Ozymandias", ''Alastor'', "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "Mont Blanc", "Ode to the West Wind", "The Witch of Atlas", ''Epipsychidion'', "Adonais: An [[Elegy]] on the Death of John Keats", and "The Triumph of Life". | | Other major poems written by Shelley include "Ozymandias", ''Alastor'', "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "Mont Blanc", "Ode to the West Wind", "The Witch of Atlas", ''Epipsychidion'', "Adonais: An [[Elegy]] on the Death of John Keats", and "The Triumph of Life". |