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PERCY SHELLEY
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born 4th
August, 1792, at Field Place, near
Horsham, England…
1.ABOUT HIS LIFE…
He was born in England and he was the son of a
Member of Parliament. He was one of the major
English Romantic poets. When he was alive, he did
not achieve fame, but when he died, his fame grew.
Shelley was a key member of a close circle of
visionary poets and writers that included Lord
Byron; John Keats; Thomas Love Peacock; and his
own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of
Frankenstein.
1.1 HIS MARRIAGES
In 1810, Percy Shelley went to University College
in Oxford. In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh
with Harriet Westbrook and, one year later, went
with her and her older sister to Dublin, then to
Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six
months into 1813. They married, and after one year,
in 1814. However, with the birth of two children,
their marriage collapsed and he eloped once again,
this time with Mary Godwin.
1.1.1 FIRST MARRIAGE
Harriet Westbrook was born on 1 August, 1795.
She was the first wife of Percy Shelley. The couple
eloped to Edinburgh. They married and after, they
had two children.
When Percy Shelley eloped with Mary Godwin,
she could not bear it, so she walked the short
distance from her lodgings to Hyde Park and
drowned herself in the Serpentine River. At the time
of her death she was just twenty-one years old.
1.1.2 SECOND MARRIAGE
Mary Wodwin, also know like Mary Shelley, was
the second wife of Percy Shelley. the couple travelled
to France, Switzerland and Germany before
returning to London where he took a house with
Mary on the edge of Great Windsor Park and wrote
Alastor (1816), the poem that first brought him fame.
In 1816 Shelley spent the summer on Lake Geneva
with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, who had begun
work on Frankenstein.
1.2 PERCY’S DEATH
On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th
birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while
sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his
schooner, Don Juan. He was returning from having
set up The Liberal with the newly arrived Leigh
Hunt. The name "Don Juan", a compliment to Byron,
was chosen by Edward John Trelawny, a member of
the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle. However, according
to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed it to
"Ariel".
2. POPULAR POEMS
A New National Anthem
A Roman's Chamber
A Serpent-Face
A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, G...
A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, ...
Adonais
Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
3.1 PICTURES
Percy Shelley and his sign.
Percy Shelley writing Prometheus Unbound.
3.2 PICTURES
Percy Shelley’s grave in Rome, Italy
The funeral of Percy Shelley