This document contains detailed analysis, context and in-depth literary conventions for the Poetry section of the Edexcel A-Level English Literature course. Further support is given to students with the inclusion of quotation banks providing students with the foundations to be successful in essay q...
● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, into a wealthy Sussex family which
eventually attained minor noble rank
● The young man wholeheartedly embraced the ideals of liberty and equality
espoused by the French Revolution, and devoted his considerable passion
and persuasive power to convincing others of the rightness of his beliefs.
● Where the older generation was marked by simple ideals and a reverence for
nature, the poets of the younger generation came to be known for their
sensuous aestheticism, their explorations of intense passions, their political
radicalism, and their tragically short lives.
● Shelley and his fellow Romantics existed in the historical period just after the
French Revolution (1789–99), and the question of what constituted the best
society was hotly debated in his time
● Shelley did not believe that kings ruled through divine mandate. In fact he was
publicly an atheist and left Oxford over his refusal to recant this position.
● he advocated for positions such as the abolition of slavery, free love, women's
rights and atheism putting him on the far left of the political spectrum on
almost every issue.
● During their stay in Venice, little Clara Shelley became ill and died.
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