Lesson 7.08: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• Task

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to: Identify works by Shelley and appreciate his innovative writing style The above objectives correspond with the following Alabama Course of Study Objectives: CCRS 4determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings, CCRS 7Tooltip, and CCRS 8Tooltip.

Introduction

Percy Bysshe Shelley is thought today to be one of the major British Romantic poets because of his lyric style of writing.  He was good friends with Lord Byron whom we studied in a previous lesson.  Shelley wrote much of his work with the confines of what Romantic poetry was considered at the time, but he also wrote about topics that no one else dared to touch, like incest.  He always tried to plead with his reader to strive to be better than he currently was, always reaching for higher goals.  In this lesson, you will learn more about Shelley’s life and read some of his works.