Percy Bysshe Shelley Romantic

Info

- "most fervent rebel of the major English romantics" (Horton 565)

- descendent of conservative Sussex gentry

- bigotry - parent oppressing a female of unusual intellect and beauty

- vegetarian

- disciple - Robert Browning

Works

- "Ode to the West Wind" - refers to all four seasons; wind brings change

- "Ozymandias" - Ramses II statue; pride; sonnet

- "England in 1819" - evil will perish of its own corruption, but with it will come freedom

- Prometheus Unbound - closet drama

- Adonais - elegy

Terms

- closet drama - "a play intended only for reading" (Horton 718)

- elegy

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.