ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Shelley writes that “poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be the expression of the Imagination: and poetry is connate with the origin of man” (Richter 340).

Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley’s best known works include “Ozymandias” (1818), “Ode to the West Wind” (1819), “To a Skylark” (1820), and the political ballad “The Mask of Anarchy” (1819). As well as poetry, he wrote prose fiction and essays on political, social, and philosophical issues.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poetry is man’s real and outward expression of his imagination, and Poetry is an innate characteristic of man. A human being is that body with the imaginative soul. Like Nature creating music on Coleridge’s Eolian harp, our interactions with the world are themselves forms of poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shelley, in his essay, states that imagination is the power of inspiration that formulates the vision of the Page 2 32 Reflections on Shelley’s Poetry in the Light of his A Defense of Poetry Essay: Does the Poet Have a Divine Power? poet, who cannot be created by automatic writing or trained as a craftsman.

Detailed explanation-5: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (/bɪʃ/ ( listen) BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.