SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE, an eminent English poet, was born in Sussex,
August 4, 1792. He received his education at Eton and Oxford, but
was expelled from the latter in 1811, because of a tract he had
written in favour of atheism. Shortly afterward he married Harriet
Westbrook, a girl but sixteen years of age. Their married happiness
was short-lived, two years being the length of time which the young
poet was able to remain true to this early love. On the death of
his wife in 1816, he married Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1818 he left
England for Italy, where he remained until his death by drowning in
the Gulf of Spezia in 1822.