Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born as the oldest son of a wealthy squire on August 4, 1792. He is considered to be one of the greatest English poets of the romantic era. “Queen Mab,” which was printed in 1813, was his first important poem. He went to Eton College from 1804 until 1810 and after that to Oxford University, which he got expelled from in 1811, for publishing the pamphlet “The Necessity of Atheism” with a friend.

Shelley married Harriet Westbrook in the summer of 1811 and they had two children. After Harriet died in 1816, he remarried a woman named Mary Godwin. With her, he had three children and they moved from England to Italy in 1818. Shelley drowned while sailing in the Gulf of Spezia on July 8, 1822 in Italy.

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