● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place. As the oldest of their seven children, Shelley left home at age of 10 to study at Syon House Academy.
● After two years, he enrolled at Eton College and began writing poetry. He was severely bullied, by his classmates. Within a year he had published two novels and two volumes of poetry. His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810)
● In 1811, While he was doing this he wrote a pamphlet with Thomas Jefferson Hogg called “The Necessity of Atheism”. This got him expelled from Oxford after less than a year of enrollment
● Shelley could have restored his position in Oxford but it would require Shelley to deny supporting the pamphlet and declared himself a Christian. …show more content…
In the fall of 1816, Shelley and Mary returned to England to find that Mary’s half-sister, Fanny Imlay, had committed suicide. A few weeks later, Shelley and Mary finally married. Now that Harriet was dead Shelley and Mary Godwin could officially get married.
● Shelley and Mary moved to Marlow, a small village in Buckinghamshire. There, Shelley befriended John Keats and Leigh Hunt, both talented poets and writers.
● In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, it was a long narrative poem that, because it contained references to incest as well as attacks on religion, was withdrawn after only a few copies were published.
● While in Rome, their first-born son William died of a fever. A year later, their baby daughter, Clara Everina, died as well. During their residency in Livorno, in 1819, he wrote The Cenci and The Masque of Anarchy and Men of England, a response to the Peterloo Massacre in England.
● On July 8, 1822, just shy of turning 30, Shelley drowned while sailing his schooner back from Livorno to Lerici. Most papers reported Shelley’s death as an accident. However, based on the scene that was discovered on the boat’s deck, others suspected that he might have been murdered by a person who detested his political
● After two years, he enrolled at Eton College and began writing poetry. He was severely bullied, by his classmates. Within a year he had published two novels and two volumes of poetry. His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810)
● In 1811, While he was doing this he wrote a pamphlet with Thomas Jefferson Hogg called “The Necessity of Atheism”. This got him expelled from Oxford after less than a year of enrollment
● Shelley could have restored his position in Oxford but it would require Shelley to deny supporting the pamphlet and declared himself a Christian. …show more content…
In the fall of 1816, Shelley and Mary returned to England to find that Mary’s half-sister, Fanny Imlay, had committed suicide. A few weeks later, Shelley and Mary finally married. Now that Harriet was dead Shelley and Mary Godwin could officially get married.
● Shelley and Mary moved to Marlow, a small village in Buckinghamshire. There, Shelley befriended John Keats and Leigh Hunt, both talented poets and writers.
● In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, it was a long narrative poem that, because it contained references to incest as well as attacks on religion, was withdrawn after only a few copies were published.
● While in Rome, their first-born son William died of a fever. A year later, their baby daughter, Clara Everina, died as well. During their residency in Livorno, in 1819, he wrote The Cenci and The Masque of Anarchy and Men of England, a response to the Peterloo Massacre in England.
● On July 8, 1822, just shy of turning 30, Shelley drowned while sailing his schooner back from Livorno to Lerici. Most papers reported Shelley’s death as an accident. However, based on the scene that was discovered on the boat’s deck, others suspected that he might have been murdered by a person who detested his political