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By: Christopher Senger

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Born on August 4, 1792, Broadbridge Heath, England, to a very wealthy family that could afford the best education at the time which later allowed him to attend Oxford

His father was a member of parliament and his family held a large amount of political power

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Percy, to the shook of his father, was expelled from Oxford due to his radical anti religious pamplet titled The Necessity of Atheism.

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He had a strong belief that words held a strong power and that he needed to share what he deemed as his truth to the world through his writings and poetry.

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He later on in 1811 married Harriet Westbrook and had two children.

During this time Percy and Harriet would move around Whales and he would produce multiple works of antigovernment poetry which gained him attention as someone who disliked tradition and order.

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After falling in love with Mary Shelley while already in a marriage with Harriet they ran away together while Harriet was pregnant.

Harriet commited suicide in 1816 and weeks later Mary and Percy married. Percy also lost custody to the two children in his previous marriage.

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Only one of the four children survived to adulthood and Mary Shelley grew distant to her husband blaming his constant need to move around as the cause for their children’s sudden deaths.

He made many other famous friends such as Lord Byron and even wrote poetry about him.

While sailing with his friend Williams, Percy was caught in a storm and drowned.

Died July 8, 1822, Italy.

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Most of his poetry is inspired by death and how all things come to an inevitable end.

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Ozymandias remains to be his most famous work in which the main theme is time and the taking of power.

Queen Mab and Mont Blanc are also two of his most famous poems. He gained inspiration by traveling and visiting places like Rome.

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Rumor has it Mary Shelley had his heart wrapped in a copy of one of his poems which she had in her desk for over 30 years.

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Bloom, Harold. “Shelley, Percy Bysshe.”           Percy Shelley, Chelsea House, 2001.               Bloom's Literature,

online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=201326&itemid=WE54&articleId=5118.

Gladden, Samuel Lyndon. “Shelley, Percy Bysshe.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism,

Second Edition, Facts On File, 2014. Bloom's Literature, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?

Brackett, Virginia. “Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley.” Critical Companion to Mary

Shelley, Facts On File, 2012. Bloom's Literature, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?

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Digital Images
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Alfred_Clint_crop.jpg

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/shelleyov.html

http://открытыйурок.рф/статьи/645223/

https://www.studyrankers.com/2015/04/study-material-of-ozymandias.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65624/mary-shelleys-favorite-keepsake-her-dead-husbands-heart