“It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words.”
About Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, the Shelley family home near Horsham in Sussex, and died on 8 July 1822, drowned in the Gulf of Spezia off the Italian coast before he had reached his thirtieth birthday. The extraordinary compression of his life has encouraged a legend of Shelley as the…