A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark"
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To a Sky-Lark
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1820
Introduction
To a Sky-Lark
was written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June, 1820. Shelley was staying in Leghorn (Italian name, Livorno) Italy, at the time, and he and his wife, Mary, were taking a stroll in the lanes on a summer evening when they heard the song of a skylark. This inspired Shelley to write the poem, which was published in his volume of poems, Prometheus Unbound, in the same year. The poem can be found in Shelley: Poems, (1993) in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
series, or in any edition of the poet's work.
The skylark (Latin name Alauda arvensis) is a small bird found in Europe and known for its song. The skylark sings only when in flight, when it is high in the sky and often barely visible. Shelley uses the song of the skylark to suggest the creative inspiration of the poet, which often comes from a hidden, unseen source. Also, the skylark embodies for the poet a kind of transcendental joy, beyond the reach of human thought and more pure and delightful than anything the poet can compare it with.
To a Sky-Lark
has always been one of Shelley's most popular lyrics, although only since the 1960s has it received serious attention from literary critics for the craftsmanship it displays and the subtlety of many of its images. The poem is an ideal introduction to Shelley's lifelong interest in an unorthodox transcendental philosophy and the nature of creativity.
Author Biography
Percy Bysshe Shelley is known primarily as one of the great English Romantic poets, but he was also an essayist, dramatist, translator, and pamphleteer. Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England, the eldest of seven children born to Sir Timothy Shelley, a landowner and a Whig member of Parliament, and Elizabeth Pilfold. At a young age Shelley was known as a highly imaginative boy with an excitable temper. When he was only twelve or thirteen he experimented with gunpowder, blowing