Percy Bysshe Shelley (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley, Percy Bysshe, one of the greatest of English poets, was born on 4th August 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, the eldest child of Timothy Shelley and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Pilfold of Effingham, Surrey. The family was old and honourable. Bysshe Shelley, the poet´s grandfather, married two heiresses, acquired a great property, and in 1806 received a baronetcy; in 1815 he died. Percy was a boy of much sensibility, quick imagination, and generous heart; physically of a refined type of beauty, blue-eyed, golden-haired. At ten years old he became a pupil of Dr Greenlaw´s at Sion House School, Isleworth, where he made some progress in classics, listened with delight to lectures on natural science, and endured much rough handling from his schoolfellows. In 1804 he passed to Eton, where Dr Goodall was then head-master. He continued his study of the classics, read eagerly Lucretius and Pliny, became a disciple of the 18th-century sceptical and revolutionary writers, pored over Godwin´s Political Justice, filled his imagination with the wonders of modern science, resisted the system of school-fagging, and held aloof from the throng of the schoolboys, who in turn made him the object of systematic persecution. While still at Eton he wrote a crude romance, in the manner of M. G. Lewis, which was published with the title Zastrozzi in April 1810. Before the close of the year a second romance, St Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, appeared; it is as absurd as its predecessor in its sentimental extravagance, its pseudopassion, and mock sublimity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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