Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex, England, in August 1792, the son of prosperous and conventional British MP Timothy Shelley, who later would have difficulty accepting his son’s political, religious, and sexual views. As a boy, Shelley demonstrated signs of extreme intelligence, excelling in Latin and Greek, and taking an early interest in scientific experimentation. Also showing early signs of his antiauthoritarian politics and resistance to social convention, when he entered the...