Percy Bysshe Shelley Resume

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Date of Birth: August 4, 1792

Education

• Sion House Academy: 1802-1804
• Eton: 1804-1810
• University College, Oxford: 1810-1811
• 1811- Expelled for his involvement with the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

Experience/ Works 

• Author
•  1813- “Queen Mab”
•  1816- “Alastor”
•  1818- The Revolt of Islam
•  1819- The Cenci and “Ode to the West Wind”
•  1820- Prometheus Unbound
•  1821- “Epipsychidion” and “Adonais”

Family/Life 

• 1810- Marries Harriet Westbrook
•  1814- Meets William Godwin
•  Believed that marriage contract is not needed
•  1816- Marries Godwin’s daughter, Mary, after hearing of Harriet’s death.
•  1818- Follows Byron into social exile
•  Vegetarian

Horton, Ronald. "Percy Bysshe Shelley." British Literature. 2nd ed. Greenville: BJU, 2003. 565-67. Print.

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