Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was an English Romantic poet and a major figure of the Romantic movement. Born in Sussex, he studied at University College, Oxford, but was expelled in 1811. Shelley married Harriet Westbrook in 1811 and later married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1816. His poetry includes “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “To a Skylark,” and the elegy “Adonais.” He also wrote the verse drama *Prometheus Unbound* and the political poem “The Masque of Anarchy.” Shelley lived much of his later life in Italy and died by drowning in 1822.