Percy Shelley was a revolutionary English romantic poet who is known as one of the finest lyric poets in literacy history. His work featured his own beliefs and was often scolded for it due to his extreme atheistic and socialist views that he did not exclude from his work. Works of his such as The Necessity of Atheism did not hide his views whatsoever and this is why he was so well known, he did not care if people agreed with his views or not. Percy Shelley was born august 4, 1792 in Broadbridge Heath, England. Shelley’s childhood was filled with fishing in hunting in the rivers and woods surrounding his home in the countryside of Broadbridge Heath with his good friend and cousin Thomas Medwin. He was the oldest of his seven siblings and …show more content…
He refused which led to a falling out between him and his parents over his controversial beliefs. Shelley ran away in secrecy with a 16-year old woman named Harriet Westbrook in the fall of 1811 even though his parents had clearly forbidden him to see her. He entered this relationship with the intent to prevent her from committing suicide, but it wasn’t long before he grew tired and annoyed of her and pursued a different woman. This woman’s name was Elizabeth Hitchener, a school teacher who became Shelley’s inspiration for his first major poem, Queen Mab. The young couple eventually had two children together, a daughter named Elizabeth Lanthe and a son named Charles, but before his second child was born he left his wife and took up another woman named Mary. Shelly had another child with mary, but the child had died only weeks after she was born. Shelly and Mary eventually got married after they had found out Harriet committed suicide, but Harriet and Shelly’s children were sent of to foster care after their mother’s death. The court had ruled that they were better off in foster care than with their father. Shelly died at the young age of 29. He had died while sailing his schooner from Livorno to Lerici but his death was ruled an accident, however, some did believe he might have been murdered. Shelly was cremated in the same