NIVEL AVANZADO: Romantic Poets

SECCIÓN A, NIVEL AVANZADO

Other romantic poets:

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY     (1792-1822)

English romantic poet; b. Sussex, st. U College, Oxford; rebellious student, eccentric, vegetarian, radical and freethinker; expelled from college, eloped with Harriet Westbrook, m. 1811, travels, radical activist, 2 children. An improvident husband, he abandoned his family; he eloped abroad with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Claire Clairmont; wife committed suicide 1816, Shelley married Mary W. Godwin, thereafter Mary Shelley; back to England, lost custody of his children. Friend of Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Hazlitt; pursued by creditors, travels in Italy 1818-, daughter and son by Mary Shelley died there, Pisa 1820-21, friend of Byron, in love with young Maria Viviani; moved with Mary Shelley to Lerici 1822, drowned in his boat there. Shelley was a radical idealist, the poet of passion, cosmic ambition and despair, much given to self-pitying excesses of emotion and dejection.

_____.  "Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem." 1813, pub. 1816.
_____. The Necessity of Atheism. Essay. With T. J. Hogg.
_____. "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude." Poem. 1815, pub. 1816.
_____. "Mont Blanc." Poem. 1816, pub. 1817.
_____. "Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples." 1818, pub. 1824.
_____. "England in 1819." 1819,
_____. "Ode to the West Wind." 1819, pub. 1820 in Prometheus Unbound.
_____. Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts. Written 1819, pub. 1820.
_____. "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc." 1821, pub. 1829.
_____. A Defence of Poetry. 1821, pub. 1840.
_____. "The Triumph of Life." Poem. 1822, pub. in Posthumous Poems. 1824.
_____. Poetical Works. Ed. Mary Shelley. 1839.




SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE     (1772-1834)

_____. Poems on Various Subjects. 1796.
_____. Poems. 1797.
_____. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Poem, w. 1797. In Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads. 1798.
_____. "Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." Poem. c. 1797-98, pub. 1816.
_____. Christabel. Poem. 1816.
_____. Biographia Literaria : Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions. 1817.
_____. The Friend. 3rd. ed. London, 1837.
_____. Shakspeare Lectures. 1818, etc.




THE ROMANTICS - Audios from In Our Time (BBC).
    http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/the-romantics.html



Byron, Shelley, and Keats - notes from The Short Oxford History of English Literature.