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Portrait image of Percy Bysshe Shelley Painting by Amelia Curran 1819

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Country/Region:
United Kingdom, Italy
Born:
August 4, 1792
Dead:
July 8, 1822
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Poetry, Drama
The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He went to Eton and Oxford, he wrote poetry and he experimented with alchemy. He was sent down from Oxford when he was eighteen after he had published a pamphlet entitled "The Necessity of Atheism". All copies but one were burned and the incident led to a break with his family. Shelley was radical and oppositional; he accepted no power over individual freedom exercised by Sovereign, Church or Family. He described himself as a committed republican and sceptic.

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