Shelley’s Death

• Drowned during storm at 29 • Possibly assassinated• The boat, the Don Juan, showed signs

of being hit by a larger vessel (enemies in British government)

• Body washed ashore• Wife kept Shelley’s heart• Shelley cremated on beach

Shelley’s Works

• “Ozymandias”• “Ode to the West Wind”• “The Masque of Anarchy” • “To a Skylark” • Prometheus Unbound

• Born October 21, 1772 • Father was a parish vicar• Sent to London boarding school• Not allowed to return home for

holidays• Attended Jesus College at

University of Cambridge • Won Browne Gold Medal for ode

Samuel Coleridge1772-1834

Coleridge’s Errors• Left college to join 15th Light

Dragoons• Reenrolled in college • Left without degree• Joined poet Robert Southey to

build a Pantisocracy• Married Sarah Fricker• Unitarian minister

Opium, Travel & Transcendentalism

• Friends with William Wordsworth • Started taking opium

• Granted annuity of 150 pounds to write• Traveled to Germany with Wordsworth• In Germany: Coleridge studied German and

Transcendentalism

Coleridge

• Opium addiction • Lost friendship with Wordsworth• Lived with a apothecary

for care• Died of heart failure

Coleridge’s Works

• First publication: Poems on Various Subjects

• Published Lyrical Ballads• Most famous works

– “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

– “Kubla Khan” – Biographia Literaria

The Rime of the Ancient MarinerDay after day, day after day,We stuck nor breath nor motion: As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, every where,Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!That ever this should be!Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

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• Parents separated before his birth

• Born in London • Named George Gordon Noel Byron• Born with club foot• Moved to Aberdeen, Scotland• Inherited family title at ten

George Gordon, Lord Byron1788-1824

Byron’s Exploits

• Married Anne Isabella Milbanke• Divorced Anne • Left England forever• Befriended Percy Bysshe

Shelley• Created child in affair• Seduced Italian Countess

Guiccioli• Gave 4,000 pounds to refit

Greek fleet