P.B.Shelley Flashcards
When was Shelley born?
b.1792 d.1822
Which is Shelley’s first major poem?
Queen Mab, written in 1813. It had nine cantos and was a mixture of blank verse and lyric.
When was Alastor;or the Spirit of Solitude written?
- It was a blank verse poem.
Why was the summer of 1816 important to Shelley?
The Shelleys spent the summer with Byron in Geneva. Shelley composed ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc’. Mary Shelley began writing ‘Frankenstein’.
A major work, a romance epic written by Shelley in 1817?
Laon and Cythna or, The Revolution of the Golden City. 12 canto romance-epic.
When was Laon and Cythna published?
1818, it had to be renamed to “The Revolt of Islam’ to evade the blasphemy law.
Which book by Plato did Shelley translate?
The Symposium, in 1818.
When was Rosalind and Helen written?
- about a poet-reformer Lionel, who is imprisoned for radical activity and dies young after his release.
Where was Ode to the West Wind written?
1819, at Byron’s house in Italy.
What is Julian and Madallo?
A poem by Shelley, published posthumously in 1824. based on conversations between Julian (Shelley) and Madallo (Byron) in Italy in 1819.
The name of one Elizabethan tragedy written by Shelley?
The Cenci, based on a case of incestuous rape and patricide in 16th century Rome. Written in 1819.
When did Shelley finish Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama?
in 1819. Published in 1820.
Which play by Shelley is an inverse of a lost play by Aeschylus?
Prometheus Unbound.
When was A Defense of Poetry published?
- It contained the line “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Whose death did Adonais commemorate?
John Keats’ death in 1821.
