2. ( /ˈ pɜrsi ˈ bɪʃ ˈʃɛli/ ) Was an English
poet, considered by many to be among the
greatest, and one of the most influential
leaders of the romantic movement.
Throughout his life, Shelley lived by a
radically nonconformist moral code. His
beliefs concerning love, marriage,
revolution, and politics caused him to be
considered a dangerous immoralist by
some.

3. He was born on August 4, 1792, at Field
Place, near Horsham, Sussex,
He was the son of Timothy Shelley and his
mother, a Sussex landowner, he was the eldest
of the six children. . He received his early
education at home, tutored by Reverend Evan
Edwards .

4. He was educated at Eton College but On 10 April
1810, he matriculated at University College,
Oxford. until his expulsion at the end of one year
With another student, Thomas Jefferson Hogg,
Shelley had written and circulated a pamphlet,
The Necessity of Atheism (1811), of which the
university authorities disapproved. He had also
published a pamphlet of burlesque verse,
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
(1810).

5. Four months after being expelled, the 19-
year-old Shelley married his first
wife, Harriet Westbrook, and moved to
the Lake District of England to study
and write. Two years later, he published
his first long serious work, Queen Mab:
A Philosophical Poem (1813). The
poem was one result of Shelley's
friendship with the British philosopher
William Godwin.

6. expressing Godwin's freethinking Socialist
philosophy. Another result of their
friendship was Shelley's relationship
with Godwin's daughter, Mary
Wollstonecraft. In 1814, after separating
from his wife, Shelley briefly toured
Europe with Mary.

7. Returning to England, he produced the verse
allegory Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
(1816), which anticipated his later important
work. During another brief visit to the Continent
in the summer of 1816, Shelley and Mary met the
British poet Lord Byron. At this time, Shelley
wrote two short poems, “Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty” and “Mont Blanc.” In December
1816, three weeks after the body of his wife, an
apparent suicide, was recovered from a lake in a
London park, Shelley and Mary were married.

8. In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, a
long narrative poem that tells a symbolic tale
of revolution. It was later reissued as The
Revolt of Islam (1818). At this time, he also
wrote revolutionary political tracts signed
“The Hermit of Marlow.” Then, early in 1818,
he and his new wife left England for the last
time.

9. During the remaining four years of his
life, Shelley produced all his major works.
Traveling and living in various Italian
cities, the Shelleys were friendly with the
British poet Leigh Hunt and his family as well
as with Byron. Shortly before his 30th
birthday, Shelley was drowned (July 8, 1822)
in a storm while attempting to sail from
Livorno to Le Spezia, Italy. Ten days later, his
body was washed ashore.

10. On 8 July 1822, less than a
month before his 30th
birthday, Shelley
drowned in a sudden
storm while sailing back
from Livorno to Lerici

11. He is most famous for such
classic anthology verse works
as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a
Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The
Cloud and The Masqueof Anarchy, which are
“To a Skylark” (1820), “To the West Wind”
(1819), and “The Cloud” (1820). Also greatly
admired are the shorter love lyrics, including
“I arise from dreams of thee” and “To
Constantia singing”; the sonnet “Ozymandias”
(1818); and “Adonais” (1821).

12. Percy Bysshe Shelley completed the poem "To a
Skylark" in late June, 1820, and forwarded it
to London to be included among the verse
accompanying Prometheus Unbound published
by Charles and James Collier in London.

13. It was inspired by an evening walk in the country
near Livorno, Italy, with Mary Shelley, and
describes the appearance and song of a skylark
they come upon. Mary Shelley described the
event that inspired Shelley to write "To a
Skylark": "In the Spring we spent a week or two
near Leghorn. ... It was on a beautiful summer
evening while wandering among the lanes whose
myrtle hedges were the bowers of the fire-
flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark.

14. ." The poem uses a unique five line stanza with a
three beat line except for the fifth line, which
doubles the number beats of the other lines,
and it has a rhyme scheme that is consistently
'ababb.'

15. One of percy poem’s is
“To The Skylark”
A skylark is addressed by
the poet, who calls it a
"blithe Spirit" rather
than a bird, because its
song emanates from
Heaven.

16. The poet stated that no one knows what the
skylark is, for it is unique: even "rainbow
clouds" do not rain as brightly as the shower of
melody that pours from the skylark. The bird is
"like a poet hidden / In the light of
thought", able to make the world experience
"sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not".

17. Whig- supporter of Revolution against British.
Hail- to praise or approve a person, action, or
accomplishment with.
Profuse- expressed at length, many times, and in
many words.
Blithe- cheerful and carefree.
Bare- not covered by clothing.
Dew- moisture from the air that has condensed as tiny
drops on outdoor objects and surfaces.
Hue-a color or shade of a color.

18. Vernal- appearing or happening in the season of
spring.
Vaunt-to boast or act boastfully about something
such as achievements or possessions.
Scorn- strong feeling of contempt
Satiety- a state in which somebody has had enough
or too much.
Fraught- full of or accompanied by problems,
dangers, or difficulties.