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Percy Bysshe Shelley Beowulf Joseph Severn, Shelley in the baths of Caracalla, 1845, Rome, Keats-Shelley Memorial House Percy Bysshe Shelley Performer - Culture & Literature Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton © 2012

Louis Edouard Fournier, The Cremation of Shelley, 1889 1. Life Born in Sussex in 1792. Studied at Oxford University from which he was expelled because of a radical pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism. Married to 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook. Some years later he ran away with Mary Godwin, daughter of William Godwin. In 1818 Shelley and Mary left England and settled in Italy. Died in 1822 while sailing in the Bay of Spezia, near Lerici. Louis Edouard Fournier, The Cremation of Shelley, 1889 Performer - Culture & Literature

2. Main works 1917 The Revolt of Islam, a revolutionary poem about the power of love. 1918 Ode to the west Wind. 1919 The Cenci, a verse tragedy. 1920 Prometheus Unbound, a lyrical drama dealing with the theme of intellectual rebellion. 1921 A Defence of Poetry, an unfinished essay concerning the importance of poetry. Performer - Culture & Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3. Themes Shelley’s works reveal: his restless spirit; his refusal of social conventions and political oppression; his faith in a better future. He believed in freedom and love the remedies for the faults and evils of society. Through love man could overcome any political, moral and social conventions. Performer - Culture & Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4. Shelley’s poetry Poetry the expression of imagination understood as revolutionary creativity, seriously meant to change the reality of an increasingly material world Performer - Culture & Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5. Shelley’s nature Unlike Wordsworth, it is not the real world. Nature It is a beautiful veil that hides the eternal truth of the Divine Spirit. It provides the poet with beautiful images, such as the wind. The favourite refuge from the disappointment and injustice of the ordinary world. The interlocutor of the poet’s melancholy dreams and of his hopes for a better future. Performer - Culture & Literature

6. The poet’s task The poet is a prophet; a Titan challenging the cosmos. His task is to help mankind to reach an ideal world where freedom, love and beauty are delivered from tyranny, destruction and alienation. Performer - Culture & Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 7. Ode to the West Wind The wild autumn wind a living symbol of the spiritual forces able to regenerate the fading or decadent life of nations; to help heroic spirits; to scatter their burning words, ‘like ashes from an unextinguished hearth’, among mankind. J. Turner, Waves breaking against the wind, 1835, London, Tate Performer - Culture & Literature