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Percy Bysshe Shelley a hero to all poetry lovers

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792. He was the eldest son of the MP for Horsham and grandson of a baronet. He was brought up at Field Place, Sussex, and seemed destined for a parliamentary career. Active, mischievous, and highly imaginative as a child, he was conventionally educated a Syon House, Eton and University College, Oxford; an upbringing that made him deeply unhappy and rebellious. At school he was mocked and bullied as 'Mad Shelley'. However, at home he was worshipped by a tribe of younger sisters; a pattern that recurs throughout his life. He was sent down from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. He quarrelled violently with his father, and eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook. Three years of nomadic existence followed. He became interested in the ideas of the radical philosopher William Godwin...