2. 1.ABOUT HIS LIFE…
He was born in England and he was the son of a Member of
Parliament. He was one of the major English Romantic poets. When
he was alive, he did not achieve fame, but when he died, his fame
grew. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets
and writers that included Lord Byron; John Keats; Thomas Love
Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of
Frankenstein.
3. 1.1 HIS MARRIAGES
In 1810, Percy Shelley went to University College in Oxford. In
1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook
and, one year later, went with her and her older sister to Dublin, then
to Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six months into
1813. They married, and after one year, in 1814. However, with the
birth of two children, their marriage collapsed and he eloped once
again, this time with Mary Godwin.
4. 1.1.1 FIRST MARRIAGE
Harriet Westbrook was born on 1 August, 1795. She was the first
wife of Percy Shelley. The couple eloped to Edinburgh. They married
and after, they had two children.
When Percy Shelley eloped with Mary Godwin, she could not
bear it, so she walked the short distance from her lodgings to Hyde
Park and drowned herself in the Serpentine River. At the time of her
death she was just twenty-one years old.
5. 1.1.2 SECOND MARRIAGE
Mary Wodwin, also know like Mary Shelley, was the second wife
of Percy Shelley. the couple travelled to France, Switzerland and
Germany before returning to London where he took a house with
Mary on the edge of Great Windsor Park and wrote Alastor
(1816), the poem that first brought him fame.
In 1816 Shelley spent the summer on Lake Geneva with Lord
Byron and Mary Shelley, who had begun work on Frankenstein.
6. 1.2 PERCY’S DEATH
On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley
drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Leghorn
(Livorno) to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan. He was returning from
having set up The Liberal with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. The
name "Don Juan", a compliment to Byron, was chosen by Edward
John Trelawny, a member of the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle.
However, according to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed it to
"Ariel".
7. 2. POPULAR POEMS
A New National Anthem
A Roman's Chamber
A Serpent-Face
A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, G...
A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, ...
Adonais
Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
8. 3.1 PICTURES
Percy Shelley and his sign.
Percy Shelley writing Prometheus Unbound.
9. 3.2 PICTURES
Percy Shelley’s grave in Rome, Italy
The funeral of Percy Shelley
