Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography
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Percy Bysshe
Shelley was born on 4th August, 1792 at Field Place, Warnham in Sussex. He
was the son of a baronet. Shelley was educated at Eton. Then he went to Oxford.
He was rusticated from Oxford for publishing a pamphlet entitled ‘The Necessity
of Atheism.’ Then he was 19. Shelley returned from Oxford and then, under a momentary
impulse, married Harriet Westbrook.
His conjugal life
was unhappy because he had little mental affinity with Harriet. He rather fell
in love with Mary, the daughter of William Godwin, a famous thinker-author of
the time and eloped with her. Two (2) years later, Harriet committed suicide.
Shelley marred Mary. But he became rather unpopular in his own land and society
for the certain stories of his cruel behavior with his deceased wife Harriet.
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In 1818, he and
Mary left England for ever and went to Italy for living in Rome, Venice, Pisa
and other places. In July, 1822 Shelley was drowned when the boat carrying him
capsized in the violent storm on the Mediterranian Sea.
Shelley’s chief
works include Queen Mab, Alaster, Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, The Mask
of Anarchy, The Witch of Atlas, Hellas, Adonais, Ode to the West Wind, To a
Skylark and several other long and short poems.
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