Shelley: A Pocket Poet(Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Patricia Machin (Illustrator)

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ode to a Skylark'

Condition: Excellent for book and Dust jacket.

48 pages, Hardcover

15x11x0.6cm

Selection of poems, each introduced with some biographical information about the poet's life and possible inspiration for the poem. A sweet little keepsake for fans of Shelley.

Shelley was born at Field Place, near Horsham, the eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, MP for the Duke of Norfolks pocket borough of Shoreham-by-sea. Shelley was educated at Eton, where he was known as Mad Shelley, and University College Oxford, from where he was expelled for co-authoring a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism and refusing to answer when asked whether he had written it.

The expulsion from Oxford led to a violent quarrel with his father and was the first step in the sense of exile which pursued Shelley throughout his life. Immediately, he eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a coffee-house proprietor. They married in Edinburgh in 1811.......

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