PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: POET AND REVOLUTIONARY
Book ID/图书代码： 10953015B85678
English Summary/英文概要： Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as ’To A Skylark’, ’Ozymandias’ and ’The Mask of Anarchy’, he is considered a major Romantic poet with important new editions of his work currently being produced. But this was not always the case. During his short and tragic life he was regarded with loathing as an immoral atheist and his work received damning reviews as a result.
His was a story of extremes – the radical nature of his convictions was astounding since he was the son of a wealthy landowner and set to become a Whig MP. A focus on his belief in sexual freedom and vegetarianism often eclipses his informed internationalist and revolutionary politics. Although he wrote when the working class was in its infancy, he clearly grasped how workers – and women – were oppressed.
Admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats and Karl Marx, Shelley’s legacy remains with us today – his words have been used by popular movements from the Chartists and the Suffragettes to Tiananmen Square, the Poll Tax protesters and modern Greek solidarity movements. This new biography by playwright and activist Jacqueline Mulhallen will emphasise the political, revolutionary side of Shelley’s life and will be a valuable contribution to the existing literature on this important artist.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 今天，在威斯敏斯特教堂的诗人之角和牛津大学都有雪莱的纪念碑。他最著名的诗有云雀、奥斯曼迪斯、暴政的化妆游行等等，他被认为是一个重要的浪漫主义诗人，新版本的诗集一直在出版。但事情并不总是这样。在他短暂而悲惨的一生中，他被人不齿和厌恶，被认为是不道德的无神论者，他的作品必须接受各种审查。
他的一生充满了各种极端——有关他信念的故事其实出人意料，因为他是一个富有地主的儿子，原本肯定会成为辉格党议员。而他对于性自由的信仰和素食主义的举动也往往会让人无暇注意他对于国际主义和革命政治的见解。虽然当他写作的年代，工人阶级还处于起步阶段，但显然他清楚地认识到了工人和妇女是如何被压迫的。
奥斯卡•王尔德、托马斯•哈代、叶慈、马克思都很赞赏雪莱，而且他所遗留的想法和作品今天还和我们同在——他的话经常被各种思潮和运动引用，比如宪章运动、天安门广场、人头税抗议以及现代希腊的团结运动等等。本书由剧作家和活动家Jacqueline Mulhallen写成，她强调了雪莱一生在政治和革命方面的作为，是对于这位重要艺术家现有研究的重要贡献。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：清新，简洁，令人信服，这是目前对于雪莱革命人生的最好注解。（Nicholas Roe，圣安德鲁斯大学英语文学教授）
可读性强，这是对雪莱的生平、思想和写作的一个详尽研究。Jacqueline Mulhallen写了一本有价值的书。
（Michael O’Neill，杜伦大学英语教授）
’Fresh, clear and compelling, this is the best compact account of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s revolutionary life currently available.’ (Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews)
’Highly readable, this is an absorbing study of Shelley’s life, thought, and writing. Jacqueline Mulhallen has written a valuable book.’ (Michael O’Neill, Professor of English, Durham University)
About the Author/作者介绍： Jacqueline Mulhallen撰写了话剧Sylvia and Rebels and Friends并亲自参加演出。她突破性的书《The Theatre of Shelley》（Open Book出版社，2010年）受到国际好评。她为《The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre》撰写了有关雪莱的一个章节（OUP，2014年），该书入围2015年度戏剧图书奖。
Jacqueline Mulhallen wrote and performed in the plays Sylvia and Rebels and Friends. Her ground-breaking book The Theatre of Shelley (Open Book Publishers, 2010) has been internationally acclaimed. She contributed a chapter on Shelley to The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre (OUP, 2014) shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2015.
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