Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography, work || English Romantic poet & philosopher
Percy Bysshe Shelley was won at field place, warnham, near Horsham ,in Sussex, on August 4, 1792. His father was Timothy Shelly.
At twelve, Shelley was admitted to Eton, the most famous of England public school. He was, as one of his school fellows describes him, a boy of studios and meditative habits, averse to all games and sports, and a great reader of novels and romances. At school he was interested in Chemistry by other Physical sciences, in which pursuits he was encouraged by Dr. Lind. However, he showed a literary bent and wrote two romantic novels besides a romantic poem called 'The wandering Jew'.
After he went up to Oxford in the autumn of 1810, his life become an adventurous one. He was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet and entitled. "The Necessity of Atheism" in March 1811. Within six months of his is expulsion from Oxford he developed a romantic attachment for a girl called Harriet Westbrook. They were soon married at Gretna Green. Harriet was an extremely beautiful girl, pleasant in manners and amiable and disposition, and things went on well for a while. Shelley and his young bride lived successively at Edinburgh, York and Keswick . At the latter place he made acquaintance of Southey.
In February 1811, Shelley I moved to Ireland with a view to redressing the wrongs of that country. But he found the Roman catholic leaders intractable to his views, and he returned to Great Britain in April, and busied himself with circulating incendiary addresses, and with raising money to save and an embankment. His philanthropic activities, however, produced no appreciable results.
A daughter was born to the Shelley in June 1813, and she was named lanthe. In the same year Shelly met Godwin, the writer of 'Political Justice’. He become attached to the latter’s daughter, Mary Godwin as soon as he saw her. In Mary he found and intellectual companion which Harriet could never hope to be. They eloped and went over to the continent poor Harriet being left to her fate. The unfortunate girl was driven to despair and finally committed suicided. Shelley and Mary were married in the early part of 1816. Read more…..