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Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the most influential poets of the British Romantic Period. He is often remembered for his unconventional revolutionary ideals and his quest for the spirit of freedom. Some of his best-known works include "Ozymandias" and Prometheus Unbound.
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- Born: August 4, 1792
- Died: July 8, 1822
- Father was a member of Parliament
- First wife: Harriet Westbrook
- treated his nervous anxiety with laudanum
- Second wife: Mary Shelley (née Wolstonecraft Godwin)
- Drowned at 29 years
- Was an advocate of Vegetarianism
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The Victorian Web: P. B. Shelley: An Overview
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A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays - by Bysshe Percy Shelley - Kindle Edition. http://tinyurl.com/ya4ws36
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On this day in 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife, Harriet, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine, in Hyde Park
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Tea Parties, Where small talk dies in agonies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley #quote #tea
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On this day in 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife, Harriet Westbrook, committed suicide..http://bit.ly/2IeJtS
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“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance”--Percy Bysshe Shelley Goodnight.
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Classic Poetry: Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in a single file, with active table of contents - $0.99
The 3-volume Oxford edition, edited by Thomas Huthchinson, in one file. According to Wikipedia: ""Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced /?p??s? ?b?? ???l?/[1]) was one of the major English Romantic poets ...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Timeline
- August 4, 1792: Born Horsham, England
- 1810: Attended University College, Oxford
- 1811: Expelled from Oxford for writing The Necessity of Atheism
- 1810: Married Harriett Westbrook
- 1812: Address to the Irish People
- 1813: "Queen Mab" and A Refutation of Deism
- 1816: Harriet Shelley drowned herself, Percy Shelley and Mary W. Godwin married
- 1818: "Rosalind and Helen"
- 1819: The Mask of Anarchy and "Ode to the West Wind"
- 1820: Prometheus Unbound
- 1821: "Epipsychidion" and "Adonais" and A Defence of Poetry
- 1822: Hellas and "The Triumph of Life"
- July 19, 1822: Died
