5.1 Shelley 1

Shelley was given the choice to be reinstated(恢复学籍) after his father intervened, on the condition that he would have to recant(放弃主张；撤回) his avowed views. His refusal to do so led to a quarrel with his father.
him in his youth
which Shelley also admired

was still alive
SheΒιβλιοθήκη ley wrote to Godwin, offering himself as his devoted disciple and informing Godwin that he was
school as Shelley's sisters whom his father had forbidden him to see
His father revoked(撤销，废止) Shelley„s allowance(津贴，零用钱) and refused ever to receive the couple. He was involved in an intense platonic relationship with Elizabeth Hitchener
He began the long verse drama Prometheus Unbound

He received his early education at home.

He had a happy and contented childhood spent
largely in country pursuits
such as fishing and hunting.
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a boy
under the mistaken
impression that Southey was still a political radical.

Southey informed Shelley that William Godwin
author of Political
Justice
which had greatly influenced
This latter gained the attention of the university administration and he was called to appear before the College‟s fellows, including the Dean. His refusal to repudiate([rilpju:dieit], 否认) the authorship of the pamphlet resulted in his being expelled from Oxford in March 1811.


Shelley's mentor Godwin had 3 highly educated daughters
2 of whom were his first wife, the
celebrated feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft illegitimate
daughters.
IV. The importance of
Shelley
I. Life

born 4 August 1792 at Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, England

The eldest legitimate son of an aristocratic family

In late 1815, while living close to London with Mary and avoiding creditors, Shelley wrote Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude. It attracted little attention at the time, but has now come to be recognized as his first major achievement.

Mary Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Godwin's biological daughter, Mary,
named for her mother.

When Mary Wollstonecraft returned from Scotland, Shelley fell madly in love with her
“the son of a man of fortune in
Sussex” “heir by entail(限定继承权) to an estate of 6,000£ per an”
Godwin, who supported a large family and was chronically penniless, immediately saw in Shelley a source of his financial salvation. He wrote asking for more particulars about Shelley's income and began advising him to reconcile with his father.
Eton College

1810, he matriculated ([mə‘trɪkjuleɪt], 准许入学) at
University College, Oxford.

Legend has it that Shelley
attended only 1 lecture while
at Oxford but frequently read 16 hours a day

He began reading books by radical political writers such as
Thomas Paine (托马斯· 潘恩) William Godwin (威廉· 葛德温)

glorified heroes and heroines of the French revolution

In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College
He fared poorly, subjected to an almost daily torment. Then he developed a strong hatred of tyranny.


Shelley in 1805

His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810)
in which he vented(表达) his early atheistic([leiθilistik],
无神论的) worldview

In 1811, Shelley published his second Gothic novel and a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism(论无神论的必要性)

He was attacked by his political enemy as an immoral man.


exiled himself to Italy in 1818
spent the rest of his life there

Contact with Byron encouraged Shelley to write once again.


At this point in his writing career, Shelley was deeply influenced by the poetry of Wordsworth.

In mid-1816, Shelley and Mary made a second trip to Switzerland.


4 months after being expelled, in August 1811, the 19-yearold Shelley eloped to Scotland with the 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook
a pupil at the same boarding


Shelley also encouraged Byron to begin an epic poem on contemporary subject, advice that resulted in Byron's composition of Don Juan.

Harriet committed suicide in 1816. Shelley and Mary officially married.
He ran away to Switzerland with Mary, then 16.

After 6 weeks, homesick & destitute, they returned to England. The enraged William Godwin refused to see them, though he still demanded money, to be given to him under another name, to avoid scandal.