Full Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Father: Timothy Shelley (1753-1844).
Mother: Elizabeth Pilfold.
Wife: Harriet Westbrook (m. 1811-1816 suicide).
Daughter: Ianthe Eliza (1813-1876).
Son: Charles Shelley (1814-1826).
Wife: Mary Shelley (m. 1816–1822).
Daughter: Elizabeth Ianthe Shelley (1816-1818).
Son: William Shelley (1816-1818, with Mary).
Daughter: Clara Everina Shelley (1817-1817, with Mary).
Son: Percy Florence Shelley (1818-1889, with Mary).

Date of Birth: 4 August 1792.
Birth Place: Field Place, Horsham, Sussex, Englan.

Date of Death: 8 July 1822 (aged 29).
Death Place: Lerici, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy).
Cause of Death: Accident - Drowning.
Remains: Cremated, Campo Cestio, Rome, Italy.

Gender: Male.
Religion: Atheist.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Occupation: Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist.
Movement: Romanticism.
Nationality: England.
Influences: John Milton, William Godwin.

Influenced: William Butler Yeats, Jan Kasprowicz, Alfred Nobel, Gregory Corso, Subramanya Bharathi, Alexander Pushkin, Robert Browning.

Books: 
  • A Defence of Poetry
  • Zastrozzi, Shelley
  • St. Irvine
  • A Philosophical View of Reform
  • Selected poems and prose
  • The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Vol. 1
  • The major works
  • Love's philosophy
  • The necessity of atheism and other essays
  • Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems
  • Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Vol. 2
  • Shelley and His Circle
  • 1773-1822
  • The sensitive plant
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet, dramatist, essayist, and novelist P B Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the epic poets of the 19th century and is best known for his classic anthology verse works such as Ode to the West Wind and The Masque of Anarchy. In 1816 he married Mary Shelley daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. With whom Shelley was two sons and a daughter. Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Shelley is not less absolutely than his own original compositions; he also proses translations from Plato.