Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, heir to a baronetcy; he was expelled from Oxford for a pamphlet on atheism and broke with his father, who cut off his allowance. His political writings long remained unpublishable. He left England in 1818 for Italy with Mary Godwin, whom he had married after the suicide of his first wife. He drowned off Viareggio in 1822, aged twenty-nine, and his body was burned on the beach in front of Byron.

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