Percy bysshe shelley introduction

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the younger generation of the Romantic Poets.

When and Where was he Born?

4th August 1792, Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham, West Sussex, England.

Family Background:

Percy Bysshe Shelley was the eldest son of Timothy Shelley, M.P and Elizabeth (nee) Pinfold and the eldest grandson Bysshe Shelley, a wealthy landowner and member of the minor gentry.

Education:

Syon House Academy.

Eton College.

P.b. shelley short biography

University College, Oxford. (Sent down for his contribution to the pamphlet “The Necessity of Atheism”).

Timeline of Percy Bysshe Shelley

1798: Shelley begins his education with a local clergyman, the Reverend Evan Edwards.

1802: He goes to Syon House Academy in Isleworth (now in Hounslow, London).

1804: He moves on to Eton College.

1806: Probably his first ever poem is written in the The Esdaile Notebook.

His Grandfather Bysshe is made a Baronet.

1808: He begins a romantic correspon