Second Generation Poets
Questions
· What was Percy Bysshe Shelley?
· What were his most famous work?
· What was George gordon Byron?
· What were his most famous work?
· What was John keats?
· What was the main theme of his work?
Second Generation Poets
· The poets of the second generation:
George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe
Shelley and john Keats.
· They lived through the dissillusionment of
the post-revolutionary period.
· The Britain they knew was highly fearful of
the possibility of revolution.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822)
· He was a Poet, a Dramatist, a Essayist and a
Novelist
· Shelley was born at Field Place in Broadbridge
Heath.
· The most revolutinary of the Romantic poets.
· He was an individualist and idealist
· His ideas were anarichic
· Many of his poems address social and
political issues