Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex. His father, Timothy Shelley (1753-1844), was a land-owning Whig Member of Parliament for New Shoreham and later become a Baronet. Shelley was in line for a baronetcy and Timothy wanted his son to be educated at Eton and then Oxford. Shelley's first educational experience was at a day school in Warnham where he learnt elementary Latin and Greek. Aged ten, Shelley was sent to Syon House Academy, a London preparatory school, where he was bullied and where Shelley met his tormentors with fiery indignation and uncontrollable rage.

At Eton, where Shelley enrolled in 1804, he also proved an unpopular pupil, often subjected to 'pranks' and ridicule. …

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Articles on Shelley's works

1. A Letter to Lord Ellenborough
2. A Philosophical View of Reform
3. A Vision of the Sea
4. Adonais
5. Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
6. An Address to the Irish People
7. Defence of Poetry
8. Epipsychidion
9. Hellas
10. History of a Six Weeks' Tour
11. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
12. Mont Blanc
13. Ode to the West Wind
14. Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
15. Ozymandias
16. Peter Bell the Third
17. Prometheus Unbound
18. Queen Mab
19. St Irvyne or the Rosicrucian
20. The Cenci
21. The Cloud
22. The Liberal
23. The Mask of Anarchy
24. The Revolt of Islam
25. The Triumph of Life
26. To a Skylark
27. Zastrossi

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1. English Romanticism

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