Percy Bysshe
Shelley
, ● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, into a wealthy Sussex family
which eventually attained minor noble rank—the poet’s grandfather, a
wealthy businessman, received a baronetcy in 1806. Timothy Shelley,
●
the poet’s father, was a member of Parliament and a country
gentleman.
Young Shelley entered Eton, a prestigious school for boys, at the age
WHO WAS HE?
of twelve. While he was there, he discovered the works of a
philosopher named William Godwin, which he consumed passionately
and in which he became a fervent believer; he embraced the ideals of
liberty and equality espoused by the French Revolution, and devoted
his considerable passion and persuasive power to convincing others
of the rightness of his beliefs.
Shelley
, ● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, into a wealthy Sussex family
which eventually attained minor noble rank—the poet’s grandfather, a
wealthy businessman, received a baronetcy in 1806. Timothy Shelley,
●
the poet’s father, was a member of Parliament and a country
gentleman.
Young Shelley entered Eton, a prestigious school for boys, at the age
WHO WAS HE?
of twelve. While he was there, he discovered the works of a
philosopher named William Godwin, which he consumed passionately
and in which he became a fervent believer; he embraced the ideals of
liberty and equality espoused by the French Revolution, and devoted
his considerable passion and persuasive power to convincing others
of the rightness of his beliefs.
