The Shelley Aesthetic Thought

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the famous representatives of romantic poet in England in the early 19th century. His poems contain definite morality and political purpose.:through poems we can rebuild human nature, long for the beautiful future society of human being ,and than create an ideal world of happiness in the future .His moral values establish on the basis of his idealistic ideology which is influenced by absolute concept. For Shelley, Poems is the best means he can directly express his society ideal and moral value in the form of arts. In this way, he can communicate the experience world with the transcendent world, thus Aesthetics makes for Ethnics.In this paper, through the comprehensive studies on Shelley's poems, essays and letters, we analysis what Shelley has absorbed from Platonism and Christian thinking at the metaphysical level and changes has been made to those original thoughts. After making a compare with other romantic poets in the same period, we highlight the social significance of Shelley's aesthetic ideology.