Percy Bysshe Shelley biography

 Percy Bysshe Shelley  1792-1822


LIFE


Born at Field Place, Sussex, the son of a well-to-do country squire, 

and educated at Eton (1804-1810) and, for six months, University

College, Oxford (1810-1811) - from where he was sent down after

circulating a pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism.


This rash act was followed immediately by another: his marrying at

nineteen (whilst temporarily denied an allowance by his father for his

Oxford debacle) the sixteen-years-old Harriett Westbrook, from whom he

separated three years later for Mary Godwin.


In 1814 he left for the Continent with Mary Godwin, marrying her after

Harriett drowned herself in the Serpentine in 1816. Shelley's remaining

years were spent mainly in Italy.


He was sailing to Leghorn in the Summer of 1822 to welcome the arrival of 

Leigh Hunt (Shelley was also a friend of Byron), when his boat was lost

in a storm in the Gulf of Spezia. His body, washed up at Viareggio, was

cremated there.


PRINCIPAL WORKS


Zastrozzi  1809   -  a Gothic romance

St Irvyne  1810   -  a Gothic romance

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire  1810  (with one of his sisters)

The Necessity of Atheism  (with Thomas Hogg)  1811

Queen Mab  1813

Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude  1815

The Revolt of Islam  1817

Symposium  1818   -  translation

The Cenci, A tragedy in five acts  1819

Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems  1820

Oedipus Tyrannus  1820

Epipsychidion  1821

Defence of Poetry  1821   -  prose

The Four Ages of Poetry  1821   -  prose

Adonais  1821

Hellas  1822

Posthumous Poems (ed Mary Shelley)  1824

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed Mary Shelley)  1847


THE POEMS


OZYMANDIAS


Written in December 1817, probably in friendly competition.



ODE TO THE WEST WIND


Published in Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems in 1820.

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