Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually ...

A radical poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was just 18 years old can now be read in full despite having been kept under lock and key for the last 204 years.

On July 8th, 1822, 177 years ago today, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley set sail across the Gulf of Genoa in his small schooner Ariel to visit his friend Lord Byron in Livorno. He was 30 years of ...

A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which experts say will “rewrite” the romantic poet’s biography, is to go on display for the first time in two centuries after it was acquired by ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) made a life, albeit a short one, out of a radical and utterly destructive utopianism. He was a dedicated atheist and a vegetarian, a proponent of property held in ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not achieve literary fame during his lifetime, but today he is one of the most celebrated British poets. Shelley - who wrote during the Romantic period - drowned at sea in ...