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    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in England to a noble family. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied at school. He was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an atheist pamphlet. Shelley eloped twice, first with a 16-year-old named Harriet and then with Mary Godwin after Harriet's death. He spent his later years in Italy writing poetry and befriending Lord Byron. Shelley drowned in 1822 at age 30 when his small boat sank during a storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in England to a noble family. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied at school. He was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an atheist pamphlet. Shelley eloped twice, first with a 16-year-old named Harriet and then with Mary Godwin after Harriet's death. He spent his later years in Italy writing poetry and befriending Lord Byron. Shelley drowned in 1822 at age 30 when his small boat sank during a storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in England to a noble family. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied at school. He was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an atheist pamphlet. Shelley eloped twice, first with a 16-year-old named Harriet and then with Mary Godwin after Harriet's death. He spent his later years in Italy writing poetry and befriending Lord Byron. Shelley drowned in 1822 at age 30 when his small boat sank during a storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in England to a noble family. He had a difficult childhood, being bullied at school. He was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing an atheist pamphlet. Shelley eloped twice, first with a 16-year-old named Harriet and then with Mary Godwin after Harriet's death. He spent his later years in Italy writing poetry and befriending Lord Byron. Shelley drowned in 1822 at age 30 when his small boat sank during a storm in the Gulf of Spezia in Italy.

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    St Xavier’s College, Mahuadanr

    Short Biography of P.B.Shelly.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4th 1792 at Field Place,
    near Horsham, Sussex, England. On both, his father’s and mother’s side
    he was descended from Noble old families, famous in the political and
    literary history of England.

    At the age of 10 he was sent to Syon House Academy near London.


    There he was bullied and often lonely but he acquired an interest in
    Science especially astronomy and chemistry and became an ardent
    reader of juvenile thrillers filled with horrors of various kinds. His
    experience at his first school seemed to him like a combination of hell
    and prison.

    At the age of 12 in 1804, he entered the famous Preparatory


    School at Eton. He was a delicate, nervous, marvelously sensitive boy,
    and of great physical beauty but suffered torments at the hands of his
    rough school fellows.

    He was positive, resentful and brave to the point of rashness; soul


    and body rose up against Tyranny and he organized a rebellion against
    the cruel system. One finds what one seeks in this world. After his Eton
    experiences Shelly found causes for rebellion in all existing forms of
    human society.

    He went to Oxford University in 1810, but his University days are


    but a repetition of his earlier experiences. While at University he
    published a pamphlet called “The Necessity of Atheism”. It was a crude
    and foolish piece of work which brought conflict with the authorities
    and he was expelled from the university in 1811 because he refused to
    admit his authorship of the pamphlet.

    Shortly after his expulsion he eloped to Scotland with Harriet


    Westbrook a schoolgirl of 16 years of old. This marriage alienated him
    from his father. However their marriage was even more unfortunate, for
    two years they wandered about England Ireland and Wales.

    A major turning point in Shelly’s life occurred in July, 1814, when


    he eloped with Mary Godwin the daughter of the radical philosopher
    William Godwin author of “Political Justice”. Shelly who did not believe
    in marriage had convinced himself that his wife Harriet, mother of two
    children, no longer supplied him with the complete sympathy he craved
    for and that Mary did it. After the death of Harriet he legalized his
    association with Mary by marrying her on 29th December 1816. He went
    to Italy in 1818 and never returned to England. Here his best poetry
    was written and here he found comfort in the friendship of Lord Byron
    and Hunt ect., who are forever associated with Shelly’s Italian life.

    In 1822 when he was only 30 years of age Shelly was drowned


    while sailing in a small boat called Don Juan. His body was washed
    ashore several days later and was cremated in the same shore.

    In Shelly we deal with a tragic blend of high-mindedness and


    light-headedness. Byron wrote of Shelley “The most gentle, the most
    amiable and the least worldly-minded person I have ever met.”

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