Percy Bysshe Shelley
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is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Milestones
4 August 1792
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, the future poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham in West Sussex, the eldest of a family of six of whom the others, all but the youngest, were girls.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Summer 1820
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published his lyrical drama
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press.
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By 20 March 1821
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composed his most famous prose work, A Defence of Poetry, a poetic credo conceived as an answer to Thomas Love Peacock
's Four Ages of Poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
By 13 July 1821
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had Adonais, his elegy on the death of Keats
, printed at Pisa. He sent a copy of this edition to John Gisborne
on this date. The poem was printed at London before the end of the year.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
8 July 1822
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, poet and husband of Mary Shelley
, drowned near La Spezia in Italy when his boat capsized in a storm.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Biography
Birth and Background
4 August 1792
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, the future poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham in West Sussex, the eldest of a family of six of whom the others, all but the youngest, were girls.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.