Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	4. avgusta 1792. Horšam, Engleska
Smrt	8. jula 1822. (dob: 29) Tirensko more, Kraljevina Sardinija
Državljanstvo	englesko
Supružnik	Herijet Vestbruk (v. 1811.; u. 1816.) Meri Šeli (v. 1816.)
Obrazovanje
Školovanje	Univerzitet u Oksfordu
Zanimanje	pisac
Opus
Književni pravac	romantizam
Jezik	engleski jezik
Potpis

Persi Biš Šeli (engleski: Percy Bysshe Shelley; Horšam, 4. avgusta 1792. – Tirensko more, 8. jula 1822.) bio je engleski pesnik i jedan od najistaknutijih predstavnika romantizma, zajedno s Džonom Kitsom i Džordžom Bajronom.

Po svojoj vatrenoj veri u svemoć ljudskog uma te potpunom ignorisanju verovanja i navika iz prošlosti Šeli pripada pristalicama ideja prosvetiteljstva. Politička pravda Vilijama Godvina, proniknuta revolucionarnim anarhizmom devedesetih godina 18. veka, uskoro je postala njegova ideja vodilja. Međutim, Šeli je Godvinove ideje pretočio u hrabro zamišljenu poetsko-intelektualnu viziju. Njegove su lirske slike lake i maglovite. Kao pesnik, Šeli već početkom 19. veka pripada blistavoj poetskoj epohi poznatoj kao romantizam. Karakteristika njegova genija jest ta što je on u isto vreme i racionalista i romantički mislilac, propovednik i pesnik.

Studirao je na Univerzitetu u Oksfordu, odakle je bio izbačen zbog pisanja brošure "O neophodnosti ateizma" (1811.), zajedno sa svojim prijateljem Tomasom Hogom. S devetnaest godina odlazi u Škotsku, gde se ženi šesnaestogodišnjom Herijet Vestbruk. Godine 1916. napušta trudnu suprugu i, inspirisan avanturističkim romanima, beži s novom ljubavlju, mladom Meri, kćeri Vilijama Godvina, u Švajcarsku. Tamo se sprijateljio s Bajronom. Kasnije se preselio u Italiju. Umro je na jedrenjaku za vreme oluje u blizini Livorna 1822. godine.

Njegova druga supruga, Meri Šeli, poznata je po romanu Frankenštajn ili moderni Prometej. Posle smrti svoga muža brinula se o izdavanju njegovih dela.

Odabrana dela

Prvo izdanje filozofske poeme Kraljica Mab.

• "O neophodnosti ateizma" (engl.: The Necessity of Atheism) (esej, 1809.)
• Castroci: romansa (engl.: Zastrozzi: A Romance) (roman, 1810.)
• Sveti Irvajn (engl.: St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian) (roman, 1811.)
• Kraljica Mab (engl.: Queen Mab) (poema, 1813.)
• Alastor ili duh samoće (engl.: Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude) (poema, 1815.)
• "Himna intelektualnoj lepoti" (engl.: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty) (1816.)
• "Mon Blan" (engl.: Mont Blanc) (oda, 1816.)
• Pobuna islama (engl.: The Revolt of Islam) (poema, 1817.)
• "Ozimandija" (engl.: Ozymandias) (sonet, 1818.)
• Oslobođeni Prometej (engl.: Prometheus Unbound) (lirska drama, 1818.)
• Maska anarhije (engl.: The Masque of Anarchy) (poema, 1819.)
• "Oda zapadnom vetru" (engl.: Ode to the West Wind) (oda, 1819.)
• Čenči (engl.: The Cenci) (tragedija, 1819.)
• Helada (engl.: Hellas) (lirska drama, 1821.)
• Epipshidion (engl.: Epipsychidion) (poema, 1821.)
• "Adon: elegija povodom smrti Džona Kitsa" (engl.: Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats) (pastoralna elegija, 1821.)
• "U odbranu poezije" (engl.: A Defence of Poetry) (esej, 1821.)

Literatura

• Edmund Blunden, Shelley: A Life Story, Viking Press, 1947.
• James Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8018-8861-1.
• Richard Altick, The English Common Reader. Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
• Cameron, Kenneth Neill. The Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical. First Collier Books ed. New York: Collier Books, 1962, cop. 1950. 480 p.
• Edward Chaney. 'Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and Religion', Sites of Exchange: European Crossroads and Faultlines, eds. M. Ascari and A. Corrado. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 39–69.
• Holmes, Richard. Shelley: The Pursuit. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975.
• Meaker, M. J. Sudden Endings, 12 Profiles in Depth of Famous Suicides, Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1964 p. 67–93: "The Deserted Wife: Harriet Westbrook Shelley".
• Maurois, André, Ariel ou la vie de Shelley, Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1923
• St Clair, William. The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
• St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Hay, Daisy. Young Romantics: the Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives, Bloomsbury, 2010.
• Owchar, Nick. "The Siren's Call: An epic poet as Mary Shelley's co-author. A new edition of 'Frankenstein' shows the contributions of her husband, Percy." Los Angeles Times, 11 October 2009.
• Rhodes, Jerry. "New paperback by UD professor offers two versions of Frankenstein tale." UDaily, University of Delaware, 30 September 2009. Charles E. Robinson: "These italics used for Percy Shelley's words make even more visible the half-dozen or so places where, in his own voice, he made substantial additions to the 'draft' of Frankenstein."
• Pratt, Lynda. "Who wrote the original Frankenstein? Mary Shelley created a monster out of her 'waking dream' – but was it her husband Percy who 'embodied its ideas and sentiments'?" The Sunday Times, 29 October 2008.
• Adams, Stephen. "Percy Bysshe Shelley helped wife Mary write Frankenstein, claims professor: Mary Shelley received extensive help in writing Frankenstein from her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading academic has claimed." Telegraph, 24 August 2008. Charles E. Robinson: "He made very significant changes in words, themes and style. The book should now be credited as 'by Mary Shelley with Percy Shelley'."
• Shelley, Mary, with Percy Shelley. The Original Frankenstein. Edited with an Introduction by Charles E. Robinson. NY: Random House Vintage Classics, 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-47442-1
• Richard Ackermann: Quellen, Vorbilder, Stoffe zu Shelleys poetischen Werken (Erlangen: Deichert, 1890).
• Elmar Dod: "Die Vernünftigkeit der Imagination in Aufklärung und Romantik. Eine komparatistische Studie zu Schillers und Shelleys ästhetischen Theorien in ihrem europäischen Kontext". Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1985. ISBN 3-484-18084-6
• Neville Rogers, Shelley at Work. A Critical Inquiry (Oxford University Press, 1956; repr. 1967).
• E. R. Wasserman, Shelley. A Critical Reading (Baltimore, 1971).
• A. Leighton, Shelley and the Sublime. An Interpretation of the Major Poems (1984).
• James Bieri: Percy Bysshe Shelley. A biography. University of Delaware Press, Newark, Del. 2005.

1. Youth's unextinguished fire. 1792-1816, ISBN 0-87413-870-1.
2. Exile of unfullfilled renown. 1816-1822, ISBN 0-87413-893-0.

• Kenneth N. Cameron: Young Shelley. The genesis of a radical. Octagon Books, New York 1973, ISBN 0-374-91255-6.
• Paul Hamilton: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Northcoete House, Tavistock 2000, ISBN 0-7463-0818-3.
• Rüdiger Hillgärtner: Bürgerlicher Individualismus und revolutionäre Moral. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Darmstadt: Thesen-Verlag 1974), ISBN 3-7677-0015-8.
• Horst Höhne: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Leben und Werk (Frankfurt/M.: Lang 1998), ISBN 3-631-47117-3.
• D. J. Hughes: Potentialität in Shelleys >Prometheus Unbound<. In: Willi Erzgräber (Hrsg.): Interpretationen Band 8 · Englische Literatur von William Blake bis Thomas Hardy. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1970, S. 91-112.

Vanjske veze

• Djela čiji je autor Percy Bysshe Shelley na Projektu Gutenberg
• Besplatna e-knjiga: Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds na Projektu Gutenberg
• Percy Bysshe Shelley Resources
• Selected Poems of Shelley
• A Guide to the Percy Bysshe Shelley Manuscript Material in the Pforzheimer Collection
• A talk on Shelley's politics (MP3) by Paul Foot: part 1 Arhivirano 2005-05-04 na Wayback Machine-u, *part 2 Arhivirano 2005-05-04 na Wayback Machine-u
• A pedigree of the Shelley family
• Plato's Ion, the Shelley translation Arhivirano 2015-01-23 na Wayback Machine-u
• The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Arhivski materijal vezan uz Percy Bysshe Shelley na web-stranici Nacionalnih arhiva UK (en)
• Online exhibition of Shelley's notebooks, objects, letters and drafts alongside artefacts of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and William Godwin