P. B. Shelley, son of a Baronet of Sussex was born at Field Place on the 4th August. 1792 A.D. When he was about twelve,he was sent to Syon HOUSE Academy in 1804. Shelley matriculated at Eton. Oxford in 1810, He was expelled foom the university in 1811 for publishing a pamphlet on the necessity of Atheism. Soon after he fell in love with Harriet West brook,daughter of a coffee-house owner whom he married at Edinburgh in August, 1811.For three years (1811-13) he led with Harriet a wandering life,engaging in feformist propaganda in ireland and Wales.in 1813 he privately printed for circulation among his friends Queen Mab his first motable work.

In 1816 Shelley married Mary Godwin after Harriet had drowned herself. Shelley had published "The Revolt of Islam" (1817) before he went to Italy. Here he spent the remaining four years of life living at Venice,Rome, Naples and Pisa. He met Byron at Venice. Shelley's greatest works were produced during these years of exile in Italy. He was drowned in the gulf of Spezzia in July, 1822 and cremated in the presence of Byron with whom he had been living.

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