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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Born: 1792 AD
Died: 1822 AD, at 29 years of age.

Nationality: English
Categories: Poets

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1792 – She was born on the 4th day of August on this year at Horsham, England.

 

1802 - He entered the Syon House Academy of Brentford on this year.

 

1804 – He entered Eton College on this year, where he fared little better, subjected to an almost daily mob torment his classmates called "Shelley-baits". Surrounded, the young Shelley would have his books torn from his hands and his clothes pulled at and torn until he cried out madly in his high-pitched "cracked soprano" of a voice

 

1810 – He matriculated at University College on the 10th day of April of this year.

 

1811 – He published a pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism n this year.

 

1814 – He abandoned his pregnant wife and child to elope with a 16-year-old for the second time on the 28th day of July of this year.

 

1815 - He produced the verse allegory Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude on this year.

 

1816 – He and Mary made a second trip to Switzerland on this year.

 

1818 – He and Claire left England in order to take Claire's daughter, Allegra, to her father Byron, who had taken up residence in Venice on this year.

 

1821 – He wrote the elegy Adonais on this year.

 

1822 – He arranged for James Henry Leigh Hunt on this year, the British poet and editor who had been one of his chief supporters in England, to come to Italy with his family.

 

1822 – He died on the 8th day of July of this year.






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