PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792 1822 Born August 4

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 -1822)

Born August 4, at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, into an aristocratic family.

He was an English romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values.

He attended Syon House Acadamey and Eton and in 1810 he entered the Oxford University College.

Percy was expelled from college for publishing The Necessity of Atheism.

When he was 19 he eloped with 16 yr. old Harriet Westbrook (a classmate of his sisters)

He believed in free love. He was always involved in more than one relationship. As a matter of fact his first wife (Harriet Westbrook) killed herself because he married a second women (Mary Godwin). This affair was too much for her and Harriet then drowned herself.

Returning from a voyage to Lerici, his small schooner the Ariel sank during a storm and Shelley drowned. His body washed to shore. His body was burned on the beach and buried in Rome.

SHELLEY’S WORKS • • • (1811) "The Necessity of Atheism" (1815) "Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude" (1817) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1818) "Ozymandias" [1] (http: //wikisource. org/wiki/Ozymandias) (1819) The Cenci (1819) "Ode to the West Wind" [2] (http: //wikisource. org/wiki/Ode_to_the_West_Wind) (1819) "The Masque of Anarchy" (1819) "Men of England" (1819) "The Witch of Atlas" (1820) "Prometheus Unbound" (1820) "To a Skylark" (1821) "Adonais"

Work consulted • • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley#List_of_major_works Probst, Robert http: //www. online-literature. com/shelley-percy/ E. , et al. Elements of Literature Sixth Course. Austin, Harcourt, 2000. http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Percy_Bysse_Shelley