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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August – 8 July ) was an English poet of the early nineteenth century. He is widely thought of as one of most important poets of the Romantic movement in English literature. Some of his poems, like Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind, are among the most famous in English.
Shelley was born in Horsham, Sussex. He was the son of a member of Parliament. He attended the University of Oxford, for only one year; he was expelled for being an atheist.[1] In his own time Shelley was very unpopular for his political and religious views and for his personal conduct. He married young, but left his wife to run away with Mary Godwin. After Shelley's first wife committed suicide, Shelley married Mary Godwin; she later became famous as Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein.
Shelley left England and spent much of his life travelling in Europe, especially in Italy. He became a close friend of poet Lord Byron, who also
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, , at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, with one brother and four sisters, he stood in line to inherit not only his grandfather’s considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament. He attended Eton College for six years beginning in , and then went on to Oxford University. He began writing poetry while at Eton, but his first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, ), in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi. That same year, Shelley and another student, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, published a pamphlet of burlesque verse, “Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson,” and with his sister Elizabeth, Shelley published Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire. In , Shelley continued this prolific outpouring with more publications, including another pamphlet that he wrote
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, c. ©A major figure among the English Romantic poets, Shelley led an unconventional life and died tragically young.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August near Horsham in Sussex. His father was an member of parliament. Shelley was educated at Eton and at Oxford University. There he began to read radical writers such as Tom Paine and William Godwin. In , he was expelled for his contribution to a pamphlet supporting atheism.
Shelley then eloped to Scotland with year-old Harriet Westbrook. The resulting scandal caused a serious rift with his family. Harriet and Shelley had two children, but soon separated. In , Shelley published his first serious work, 'Queen Mab'.
In , Shelley fell in love with Mary, the year-old daughter of writers William Godwin (a friend of Shelley's) and Mary Wollstonecraft. The couple travelled tillsammans in Europe and spent the summer of at Lake Geneva with Lord Byron. Shelley wrote poetry and Mary concei