Literature · Scholarship · 1792–1822
Born: 4 August 1792 · Died: 8 July 1822 · Age at death: 29
Percy Bysshe Shelley died aged 29. He was born on 4 August 1792 and died on 8 July 1822.
English Romantic poet of Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind, husband of Mary Shelley, who drowned in Italy at 29
Did you know?He was expelled from Oxford University for co-authoring a controversial pamphlet that defended the existence of atheism.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a radical Romantic poet. He was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet on atheism. He eloped twice, the second time with Mary Godwin, later Mary Shelley. His poems include Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark. He believed poetry could change the world. He lived in Italy for his last years. He drowned in a sailing accident in 1822, aged 29.
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.
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English poet, 1792–1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born near Horsham, Sussex, on 4 August 1792.
He was expelled from Oxford.
He married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
He drowned off Italy in 1822.
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Did you know?His heart is said to have been saved from his funeral pyre and kept by Mary Shelley.
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