about Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西·比希·雪莱(August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822 )
was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language.
Shelley was born in Warnham(沃恩汉), England. He was a son of Sir Timothy Shelley, a Whig(辉格党）Member of Parliament. He grew up in Horsham(霍舍姆) and in 1804 Shelley entered Eton College(伊顿公学). At Eton, among the tyrannies and conventions of a great public school, his sensitive nature was thrown into a fever of rebellion.
On April 10, 1810, Shelley matriculated at University College, Oxford where he read the sceptical French philosophers. In 1811, Shelley published a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism（《无神论的必要性》）, for which he was expelled. Shelley was given the choice to be reinstated after his father intervened, on the condition that he would have had to recant his avowed views. His refusal to do so led to a falling-out with his father.
Four months after being expelled, the 19-year-old Shelley traveled to Scotland with the 16-year-old schoolgirl Harriet Westbrook(哈丽雅特·威斯特布鲁克) to get married.
He separated from Harriet Westbrook in 1814, and united himself with William Godwin’s daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin(玛丽·葛德文), later known as Mary Shelley(玛丽·雪莱), who after Harriet’s suicide became his wife.
Mary¡PShelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein.
In 1822 poet was drowned off Leghorn(莱吉恩), in one of those swift storms which sweep the Mediterranean during the summer heats.
His body was burned on the beach, and his ashes were placed in the Protestant cemetery at Rome.
COR CORDIUM
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
众心之心
他的一切并没有消逝
只是经历过的变异
已变得丰富而且神奇
诗歌:
麦布女王（Queen Mab，1813）
阿拉斯塔（Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude, 1816)
伊斯兰的反叛（The Revolt of Islam，1818）
含羞草（The Sensitive Plant，1820）
阿多尼斯（Adonais，1821）
西风颂（Ode To The West Wind，1819）
致云雀（To A Skylark，1820）
剧本:
倩契（The Cenci，1819，五幕悲剧）
解放的普罗米修斯（Prometheus Unbound，1820, 抒情诗剧）
论文及散文:
无神论的必然（The Necessity of Atheism, 1811）
自然神论之驳斥（1814）
关于把改革付诸全国投票的建议（1817）
诗的辩护（1821）
Ode to the West Wind
Shelley invokes the wind magically, describing its power and its role as both "destroyer and preserver," and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor "as a wave,
a leaf, a cloud!"
In this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quality, and
ultimate effect of aesthetic expression.
In “Ode to the West Wind”, Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to show his desire for transcendence, by explaining that his thoughts and ideas.
Each of the parts of "Ode to the West Wind" follows this scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EE.
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own?
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
把我当作你的竖琴吧，有如树林：
尽管我的叶落了，那有什么关系！
你巨大的合奏所振起的音乐
将染有树林和我的深邃的秋意：
虽忧伤而甜蜜。

呵，但愿你给予我
狂暴的精神！奋勇者呵，让我们合一！
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
请把我枯死的思想向世界吹落，
让它像枯叶一样促成新的生命！
哦，请听从这一篇符咒似的诗歌，
就把我的话语，像是灰烬和火星
从还未熄灭的炉火向人间播散！
让预言的喇叭通过我的嘴唇
把昏睡的大地唤醒吧！要是冬天
已经来了，西风呵，春日怎能遥远？。