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Shelley (P.B. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 ~ 1822) was an English poet. Born in Sussex in 1792. The creation of English poetry in this period experienced a revolution in the hands of a group of young poets: protest replaced conventionality, lyricism replaced preaching, and arrogance replaced formality. Shelley is one of these romantic poets who praised revolution and attacked tradition. He was born into a rural landlord family. My grandfather was a baron, and my father became a member of parliament with the Whigs. Shelley studied Latin at the age of 6, and studied mathematics, Latin, French, geography, astronomy, chemistry and physics at the age of 1 to 12 in the Thain Academy. He entered Eton College in 184 and continued to study French and German. In 189, he co-wrote a long poem "The Wandering Jew" with a friend (unpublished). He himself wrote the legendary stories "Chai Strozzi" and "St. Irwin", and also co-wrote a collection of poems with his sister. In October 181, he entered Oxford University. He once wrote a philosophical paper "The Necessity of Atheism" and published it at his own expense. This challenging article discusses the existence of God purely rationally, analyzes the arguments of believing in God and not believing in God, and concludes that "believing in God is unfounded" and atheism is necessary. In February 1811, The Necessity of Atheism appeared in the bookstore of Oxford, and was discovered by a priest. He immediately forced the bookstore owner to burn the book that a professor received from Shelley and hurried to the school for questioning. In March, Shelley was expelled from school. His father asked him to apologize, but he refused. He abandoned his family and had to stay in London temporarily. At this time, a girl who was also under family pressure and a friend of Shelley's sister, Hailie Westbrook, asked Shelley for protection and was willing to run away with him. Shelley agreed out of sympathy. In August 1811, five months after leaving Oxford, Shelley and Hailiao left and got married in Edinburgh. The stubborn father stopped helping Shelley, which made his life difficult. But this did not dampen his revolutionary spirit. In February 1812, he and Haili Ai crossed the sea to Ireland where religious and ethnic conflicts were intertwined. Ireland has been oppressed by the British government for a long time. Under the influence of the French revolution, Ireland launched a rebellion and was suppressed. Always sympathetic to the weak Shelley, he prepared a letter to the Irish people before leaving. After arriving in Dublin, he printed it at his own expense and distributed it in the street. In this open letter, Shelley advocates abstinence from alcohol, helping the poor, reading and discussing, and being a moral and intelligent person, so as to win international respect and support and achieve national freedom and religious liberation. In July 1812, an unknown publisher was arrested for publishing Thomas Pine's book "Human Rights", and Shelley wrote to Lord Allan Brow, the prosecutor, to defend the freedom of the press. In September, Shelley went to Deke Village, Trima, North Wales, to raise money for the local construction of a long embankment to reclaim land from the sea. This shows that Shelley is loyal to the ideal and strives to realize it by action. At this time, Shelley read William Godwin's book Social Justice, which was an influential book in the British ideological circle at that time to encourage social reform. It criticizes the present society and puts forward the idea of the future society. The central idea is to reform the society through education. Educated people are strict with themselves and do not harm the public and self-interest. The penalty system should be reformed; It is an intolerable shackle to insist on maintaining the relationship between husband and wife when there is no love. Shelley criticized the unreasonable social system all his life, but he advocated reforming the society by means of education and advocating pure and free love, all of which were influenced by Godwin. In June 1814, Shelley visited Godwin and became friends with his 17-year-old daughter Mary. Mary fell in love with Shelley. Godwin and Hailiai both expressed their opposition. On July 27th, 1814, Shelley and Mary left for Switzerland. Six weeks later, I returned to England. Shelley monument statue. In January 1815, Shelley's grandfather died. Shelley's father decided that Shelley would get an annual allowance of 1 pounds, and at the same time paid off Shelley's debts over the years. From the autumn of this year, Shelley gradually entered the heyday of creation. I arrived in Switzerland in May 1816 and met Byron for the first time. They lived on the shores of Lake Geneva and exchanged visits in a small boat. In September, Shelley returned to England. In December, the sea mist drowned in the river of Hyde Park in London. In March 1818, Shelley finally left England for Italy, lived with Byron on the Mediterranean coast, and went boating, riding, shooting and talking poetry together. Shelley admired Byron's bold poetry, and Byron loved Shelley's purity and innocence. On July 8, 1822, Shelley and his friends sailed from Leghorn Port to their residence in Leric Port. Shortly after going out to sea, a storm broke out and the boat sank and died. Ten days later, the body was found on the beach. Byron participated in the cremation. The ashes were buried in the Roman Protestant cemetery. The long thesis "The Defense of Poetry" was written in 1821 and published in 184. At that time, Thomas peacock, a respected friend of Shelley's in England, wrote a book called Four Periods of Poetry, which discussed the different status of poetry in ancient and modern literature. Peacock believes that poetry can play an educational role in primitive society, but with the progress of human civilization, poetry is out of date in a society where reason prevails. For this reason, Shelley gently criticized peacock's views in The Defense of Poetry. Shelley prepared to write three parts of this article, but only wrote the first part. Shelley's definition of poetry is: "Poetry is the image of life expressed in eternal truth." He also said: "Poetry is the most beautiful and good idea at the most beautiful moment." "The insoluble inspiration, the poet is the interpreter; The future is revealed to the present, and the poet is a mirror, showing its great image; The poet's poems are enough to express the meaning that the poet himself does not understand; The poet sounded the attack bugle, which has an appeal that the poet himself did not understand; The power of a poet is not controlled by others, but can control others. Poets are legislators of the world, although there is no title of legislator. " It is precisely because Shelley thinks that poetry and poets have these positive functions that he disagrees with the view that the function of poetry was better than today. He believes that English literature has almost experienced a new life. People who are not noble in thought are jealous of their contemporaries and belittle their achievements, but at present, it is an era of brilliant wisdom and will eventually be recognized by future generations. The current philosophers and writers will be far better than those who appeared after the revolution in Britain in the mid-17th century. Here, Shelley affirmed the social function of the poet, the historical contribution of his contemporaries and the progressive historical viewpoint, but it was at a time when the French revolution was at a low ebb and the European ideological circle was extremely dull.