Shelley (percy bysshe shelley, 1792 ~ 1822) is a famous British democratic poet. Born in a rural landlord family, he entered Oxford University at the age of 20 and was expelled from the school for writing anti-religious philosophical papers. After joining the club, he was forced to move to Italy in 18 18 because he wrote poems to encourage the British people's revolution and support the Irish national democratic movement. In Italy, he still actively supported the Italian people's struggle for national liberation. 1822, he was caught in a storm and his ship drowned.

Shelley is a famous European romantic poet who is as famous as Byron. His works are full of passion and philosophy, and his poetic style is free and unrestrained, constantly changing in heaven and earth, time and space, ghosts and gods, and he is also used to fantasy symbolism and ancient myth themes. His best works include the long poem "The Fairy Maid" (18 13), the fantasy lyric story poem "Islamic Rebellion" (18 18), and the political poem "The Rank of Tyranny" (/kloc-0) The political poem Ode to Freedom (1820) supporting the Italian national liberation struggle, ode to the west wind (18 19) expressing revolutionary enthusiasm and victory belief, and Prometheus Liberated (18655), a representative poetic drama adapted from ancient Greek mythology, show the people.

The ultimate goal of Shelley's romantic ideal is to create a new world where everyone enjoys freedom and happiness. He imagined himself as an angel flying day and night, a cloud floating in the blue sky, a lark soaring in space, and even a westerly wind in late autumn. He is the disseminator, eulogist and summoner of the new world ideal. He painted a beautiful picture for this new world with beautiful language and rich imagination, and boldly predicted: "Winter has come, can spring be far behind?" Therefore, Engels praised learning as a "genius prophet".