几乎和拜伦同时,在文学中出现了另一个卓越的英国革命浪漫主义代表,伟大的英国诗人雪莱。他的政治和美学观点和拜伦很相近,对英国资产阶级社会的不调和的批判也完全和拜伦一样,但雪莱也还以拜伦几乎没有接触到的一些新的主题思想丰富了英国文学。马克思主义经典作家在比较雪莱和拜伦的时候,注意到这两位伟大英国诗人各自的特点。恩格斯认为拜伦的特徵在於他对社会政治的讽刺和抒情式的“热烈的情感”;而在雪莱,他首先指出,他的天才的洞察力使他看出人类未来的命运。恩格斯在“英国工人阶级状况”一书中写道:“雪莱是个天才的预言家,拜伦则充满了热烈的情感和对当时社会的尖锐的讽刺;他们二人在工人中拥有最广大的读者。……” Almost at the same time as Byron, another remarkable representative of the British revolutionary romanticism, Shelley, a great British poet, appeared in literature. His political and aesthetic views are very similar to those of Byron, and the disharmony of British bourgeois society is entirely at odds with Byron, but Shelley also enriches Britain with some of the new ideas that Byron barely touches literature. In comparing Shelley and Byron, the Marxist classics took note of the respective characteristics of these two great English poets. Engels believed that Byron was characterized by his satirical and lyrical “passionate feeling” of social politics; at Shelley, he first pointed out that the insight of his genius enabled him to see the fate of the future of mankind. Engels wrote in The State of the Working Class in England: “Shelley is a talented prophet, and Byron is full of warm emotions and a sharp irony of society at that time; both of them have the most extensive reader.……”