- William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, who produced their major works between 1810 to 1824, are regarded as the second generation of English Romantics.
- Born:August 4, 1792 Horsham, England
- Died:July 8, 1822 Livorno, Italy
- Occupation:Poet
Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ['pɜːsi bɪʃ 'ʃɛli]) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyrical poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark , and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. Colleagues and Mary Shelley - He was born in SUSSEX. HIS father , a baronet, was a conservative and narrow-m
inded Man.He studied at Horton. Shelley was disliked by teachers for his thinking and opposition to fagging. He studied atOxford.1 In 811 He wrote anti-religious pamphlet “The necessity of Atheism". IN 1812 when he was in Ireland against oppression “An address to the Irish People”, “Declaration of rights”. - He was also admired by such person as George Bernard Shaw. He is famous for his association with contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron; an untimely death at a young age was common to all three.
- He was married to the famous novelist Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and wrote the introduction to the 1818 edition of the novel.
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 -1824) Byron was a real fighter; he struggled for the liberty of the nations with both pen and sword. Freedom was the cause that he served all his life. Byron hated wars, sympathized with the oppressed people. Nevertheless, definite limitations of the poet’s world outlook caused deep contradictions in his works. Many of his verses are touched with disappointment and skepticism. The philosophy of “world sorrow” becomes the leading theme of his works. Romantic individualism and a pessimistic attitude to life combine in Byron’s art with his firm belief in reason: realistic tendencies prevail in his works of the later period. In spite of his pessimism, Byron’s verse embodies the aspirations of the English workers, Irish peasants, Spanish partisans, Italian Carbonari, Albanian and Greek patriots. His years - Byron spent the first ten years of his life in Scotland. His admiration of natural scenery of the country was reflected in many of his poems. He attended grammar school in Aberdeen. In 1798, when George was at the age of ten, his grand-uncle died and the boy inherited the title of Lord and the family estate of the Byrons, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. Now he was sent to Harrow School. At the age of seventeen he entered the Cambridge University and in 1808 graduated from it. George was sixteen when he fell in love with his distant relative Mary Chaworth,
Byron - While a student, Byron published his first collection of poems “Hours of Idleness” (1807). It was mercilessly attacked by a well known critic in the magazine “Edinburgh Review”. In a reply to it Byron wrote his satirical poem “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”. In that poem Byron criticized the contemporary literary life.
- In 1809, next year after graduating from the University, the poet took his hereditary seat in the House of Lords. The same year he left England on a long journey and visited Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece and Turkey, and during his travels wrote the first two cantos of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”.
BYRON - On February 27, 1812, Byron made his first speech in the House of Lords. He spoke in defense of the English workers and blamed the government for the unbearable conditions of the life of the working people.
- Later the poet again raised his voice in defense of the oppressed workers, encouraging them to fight for freedom in his “Song for the Luddites”. (1816)
BYRON - In 1812 the first two cantos of ”Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” were published. Walter Scott declared that for more than a century no work had produced a greater effect. The author himself remarked: “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”. Between 1813 and 1816 Byron composed his “Oriental Tales”: “The Giaour”, “The Corsair”, “Lara”, Pariina” and others.
- These tales embody the poet’s romantic individualism. The hero of each poem is a rebel against society. He is a man of strong will and passion. Proud and independent, he rises against tyranny and injustice to gain his personal freedom and happiness. But his revolt is too individualistic, and therefore it is doomed to failure.
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