Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.

• 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