A fine Romantic
ne of the best loved poets of the 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in July 1822, a month before his thirtieth birthday. In that short life he crammed turbulent schooldays marred by mob bullying at Eton College, a chequered university education at Oxford, two elopements, six (or possibly seven) children, three (or four) of whom he outlived, vegetarianism, atheism, politics, scientific experimentation, and writing fiction, articles and essays, as well as some of the finest poetry of the
