1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
His life and works

2.
Born on 4 August
Parents - Elizabeth Pilfold and Timothy Shelley
Attended – Eton College and Oxford University
Shelley and his roommate Hogg were expelled from Oxford because of their atheistic views

3. Harriet and Percy
Eloped with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook to Scotland. Percy was 19 at that time
Daughter Ianthe, son Charles

4. Mary and Percy Friendship with Willam Godwin
Eloped with 16-year-old Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairemont to Europe in 1814
The journey lasted for 6 weeks

5. William Godwin
Claire Clairmont

6. Lake Geneva In the summer of 1816 another trip to Switzerland
The Shelleys and Byron rented neighbouring houses on the shores of Lake Geneva
The ghost-story contest– “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

7. Harriet’s death
In the winter of 1816 drowned herself in the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park
Her body was found far advanced in pregnancy
Percy and Mary got married
Harriet’s death note: "I could never be anything but a source of vexation and misery to you all.... Too wretched to exert myself, lowered in the opinion of everyone, why should I drag on a miserable existence?" 

8. Italy and Percy’s death
Moved to Italy in 1818
Sailed on ‘Don Juan’
Sank in a storm in 1822
Ashes in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome
Shelley's heart was snatched from the funeral pyre by Trelawny. Mary Shelley kept it and it was later buried with the body of their son
Memorialized at the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey

9. Shelley Memorial sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford at University College, Oxford

10. Shelley’s poetry Beauty Passions Nature Political liberty Creativity
Sanctity of the imagination
The imagination is the source of sympathy, compassion, and love
Had a philosophical relationship to his subject
Shelley’s temperament, which was extraordinarily sensitive and responsive
Emphasized the connection between beauty and goodness
Believed in the power of art’s sensual pleasures
The figure of the poet – a grand, tragic, prophetic hero

11. His works first publication „Zastrozzi” “The Necessity of Atheism”
first serious long work “Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem”
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“Mont Blanc”
“Julian and Maddalo”
“Prometheus Undbound”
“Adonais”
"Ozymandias"
“Ode To The West Wind”

12. As I lay asleep in Italy...
As I lay asleep in Italy,  There came a voice from over the Sea,  And with great power it forth led me  To walk in the visions of Poesy.  I met Murder on the way -  He had a mask like Castlereagh -  Very smooth he looked, yet grim;  Seven blood-hounds followed him;  All were fat; and well they might  Be in admirable plight,  For one by one, and two by two,  He tossed them human hearts to chew  Which from his wide cloak he drew.  Next came Fraud, and he had on,  Like Eldon, an ermined gown;  His big tears, for he wept well,  Turned to millstones as they fell. 

13. THE END Thank you