Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829)
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one of the major English Romantic poets
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Born
Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 August 1792 Horsham, Sussex, England
Died
8 July 1822 (aged 29) Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Alma mater
University College, Oxford
Occupation
Poet dramatist essayist novelist
adultbasic
Britain
Children
4 (including Percy Florence Shelley )
Education
Eton College
era
1800+
Literary movement
Romanticism
Parents
Timothy Shelley Elizabeth Pilfold
Spouse
Harriet Westbrook ( m. 1811; died 1816) Mary Shelley ( m. 1816)