Percy Shelley
1792-1822
Percy Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 near Horsham, Sussex, England. He had a brother and four sisters and was entitled a spot in parliament. For his college education he attended Eton College for six years and then went to Oxford where he and a fellow student named Thomas Hogg published a pamphlet of burlesque verse. After college he got married and moved to Scotland where he continued to work and study poetry. He met Mary Godwin there and traveled to England secretly. After his first wife's death, he decided to marry Mary. In 1817, he produced a narrative called Laon and Cynthia that had to be recalled and then released again later as The Revolt of Islam. Then in the summer of 1922 Shelley died at sea due to drowning during a storm.
Most Notable Works
- "Ozymandias"
- "Ode to the West Wind"
- "The Cloud"