PERCY SHELLEY

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born 4th

August, 1792, at Field Place, near

Horsham, England…

ABOUT HIS LIFE…

H

e 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.

HIS MARRIAGES

I

n 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.

FIRST MARRIAGE

H

arriet 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.

W

hen 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.

SECOND MARRIAGE

M

ary 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.

PERCY’S DEATHO

n 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".

POPULAR POEMSA

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Roman's Chamber

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Serpent-Face

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Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, G...

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Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, ...

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donais

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las! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was

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lastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude

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