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In
1818 the Shelleys moved to Italy, where Byron was residing. In 1819 they went to Rome and in 1820 to Pisa. Shelley's works from this period include Julian And Maddalo, an exploration of his relations with Byron and Prometheus Unbound, a lyrical drama. The Cenci was a five-act tragedy based on the history of a 16th-century Roman family, and The Mask Of Anarchy was a political protest which was written after the Peterloo massacre大屠杀. In 1822 the Shelley household moved to the Bay of Lerici. There Shelley began to write The Triumph Of Life.
To
welcome his friend Leigh Hunt, he sailed to Leghorn 来亨( 意大利一城市). During the stormy return voyage to Lerici, his small schooner纵帆船 the Ariel sank and Shelley drowned with Edward Williams on July 8, 1822. The bodies were washed ashore at Viareggio, where, in the presence of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt, they were burned on the beach. Shelley was later buried in Rome.
In
company with Mr. Hogg, a fellow-student, he composed a treatise论文 entitled "The Necessity of Atheism."无神论For this publication, both of the heterodox students were expelled from the college in 1811.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1827)
English
Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era.
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Eton College
• Shelley next went to Oxford,
but
he studied irregularly, except in his peculiar views, where he seemed to be constant in his thought and speculations. He also issued a syllabus of Hume's "Essays," and at the same time challenged the authorities of Oxford to a public discussion of the subject. He was only seventeen at the time.
He
had all the advantages of wealth and rank, and hence much was expected of him.
At
the age of ten
Shelley
was placed in the public school of Sion. 锡安 House, but the harsh treatment of instructors and school-fellows rendered his life most unpleasant.
Accordingly
he was enabled to raise money with which he purchased an annuity 年金 from his father.
He
again repaired=go to to the continent in 1816, when he met Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Later he returned to England and settled at Great Marlow, in Buckinghamshire.
His
unfortunate wife committed suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine River in December, 1816, and Shelley married Miss Godwin a few weeks afterward (December 30).

Percy
Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, [5sQsiks]苏塞克 斯(英国一郡)苏塞克斯：英格 兰南部濒临英吉利海峡的盎格 鲁-撒克逊王国，建立于公元 5 世纪，在825年被西撒克斯王 国所俘 into an aristocratic family.
His
father, Timothy Shelley, was a Sussex squire乡绅, 律师, 侍从and a member of Parliament.
Shelley
attended Syon House Academy and Eton and in 1810 he entered the Oxford University College.
Shelley,
at the end of July in the same year, left England in the company of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin."
Upon
his return to London, it was found that by the deed, the fee-simple继承者有绝对处理权处理地产of the Shelley estate would pass to the poet upon his father's death.
After
they had been married three years and two children were born to them they separated. In March, 1814, Shelley was married a second time to Harriet Westbrook, the ceremony taking place in St. George's Church, Hanover Square.
Shelley
was next sent to Eton, where his sensitive nature was again deeply wounded by ill usage. He finarity, and this disposition 脾气 manifested itself strongly in Eton.
The
family line could be traced back to one of the followers of William of Normandy.
Thus
in noble blood Shelley was more fortunate than most of his brother poets, considering the estimate that England placed upon the distinction of caste, 社会等级制度.
An
elopement soon followed, and a marriage in August, 1811. Shelley's father was so enraged at this act that he cut off his son's allowance.
An
uncle, Captain Pilfold--one of Nelson's captains at the Nile and Trafalgar--generously supplied the youthful pair with money,
• His expulsion from Oxford led also to an inexcusable confusion in his social life. He had become strongly attached to Miss Grove, an accomplished 多才多艺的 young lady, • but after he was driven from college her father prohibited communication between them. He next became strongly attached to Miss Harriet Westbrook, a beautiful lady of sixteen, but of social position inferior to his.