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    Percy Shelley Biography

    Born: September 4, 1792
    Field Place, Sussex, England
    Died: July 8, 1822
    Viareggio, Italy
    English poet

    The English romantic poet Percy Shelley ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.

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    Early years

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place near Horsham, Sussex, England, on August 4, 1792. He was the first son of a wealthy, country landowner. As a boy, Shelley felt harassed by his father.

    This abuse may have first sparked the flame of protest which, during his school days at Eton from 1804 until 1810, earned him the name of "Mad Shelley." At school, however, he proved himself to be a very capable and intelligent student.

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    He also began writing some short fiction pieces.

    In the course of his first and only year at Oxford University, in England (1810–1811), Shelley and a friend Thomas Jefferson H