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          A major figure among the English Romantic poets of the 19 th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley led what was for his times an unconventional life and died.!

          Percy Bysshe Shelley, the son of Sir Timothy Shelley, the MP for New Shoreham, was born at Field Place near Horsham, in

        1. Percy Bysshe Shelley, the son of Sir Timothy Shelley, the MP for New Shoreham, was born at Field Place near Horsham, in
        2. Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, – July 8, ), poet and representative of English romanticism.
        3. A major figure among the English Romantic poets of the 19 th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley led what was for his times an unconventional life and died.
        4. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet born in He was expelled from Oxford University in for publishing an atheist pamphlet.
        5. Percy Bysshe Shelley lived in an age when working classes of Britain suffered immensely at the hands of the ruling class.

          6. [Thanks to Dr. Carol Thoma for making some valuable corrections]

          Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, the first of seven children born to Timothy Shelley, a country squire who became a baronet in 1815 upon the death of his father, Sir Bysshe Shelley.

          Percy attended Sion House Academy from 1802-4 and then Eton, where the young intellectual and idealist encountered the public school system of "fagging," in which upperclass boys tyrannized their juniors, who ran errands and acted as servants.  Afterwards Shelley equated school with prison.

          Although University College, Oxford, where he enrolled in 1810, came as something of a relief, within a few months he was expelled along with his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg for refusing to acknowledge or deny authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism.

          His father visited him in London after his expulsion, insisting that he renounce his friend Hogg and his beliefs, which included atheism, vegetarianism, free love,