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Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; [1] [2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. [3] [4] A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an ...
Soon after Percy Shelley's death, Mary Shelley determined to write his biography. In a letter of 17 November 1822, she announced: "I shall write his life—& thus occupy myself in the only manner from which I can derive consolation." [252] However, her father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley, effectively banned her from doing so.
Shelley was born as the fourth child of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife, author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at a few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood, left him as the only surviving child after his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822.
There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author Mary Godwin, Shelley's future wife. He was also joined by Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, with whom he'd had an affair in London, which subsequently resulted in the birth of their illegitimate child Allegra, who died at the age of 5 under the care of Byron later in life. [66]
When he died the title passed to his younger brother, Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, the seventh Baronet. On Sir Percy's death in 1965 this line of the family failed and the baronetcy was inherited by the late Baronet's kinsman, William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, who became the 9th Baronet of Castle Goring as well.
Shelley was born in Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey (present-day United States), on 21 June 1731. [1] He became rich and influential due to a combination of marriages to women from other influential families and his own family's wealth. [ 2 ]
First appearance in Posthumous Poems, 1824.. The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. [1] The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822
Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. Hogg had previously published Shelley at Oxford in The New Monthly Magazine. This was a well-received account of the time they spent together at University College, Oxford. [1] After he published this account, Mary Shelley suggested to him that he write a full biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. [2]