Percy Bysshe Shelley Net Worth

Percy Bysshe Shelley Net Worth is
$1 Million

Percy Bysshe Shelley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs, the unfinished work The Triumph of Life; and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820).His close circle of admirers, however, included some progressive thinkers of the day, including his future father-in-law, the philosopher William Godwin. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life, most publishers and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested themselves for blasphemy or sedition. Shelley did not live to see success and influence, although these reach down to the present day not only in literature, but in major movements in social and political thought.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, W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. One saying of his is: "I love snow and all forms of radiant frost." Shelley's popularity and influence has continued to grow in contemporary poetry circles. In late 2014, Shelley's work led lecturers from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University to produce a MOOC on the life of Percy Shelley and Prometheus Unbound.

Date Of BirthAugust 4, 1792
Died1822-07-08
Place Of BirthField Place, Warnham, near Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK
ProfessionWriter, Miscellaneous Crew
SpouseMary Shelley
Star SignLeo
#Quote
1Hell is a city much like London--a populous and smoky city.
2Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
#Fact
1Children by Mary: William Shelley, born January 14 1816 and died June 7 1818; Clara Everina Shelley, born September 2 1817 and died September 24 1817; and Percy Florence Shelley, born November 12 1818 and died December 5 1889, who succeeded his grandfather as the 3rd Baronet Shelley.
2Children by Harriet: Elizabeth Ianthe Shelley, born June 23 1813, and Charles Shelley, born November 30 1814. His only living descendants stem from Ianthe, who married and had seven children.
3These literary young lords and ladies were passing time one gloomy weekend in the summer of 1816 by creating and sharing scary stories. Mary claimed that the first night of their stay she had a nightmare. In this dream she saw a horrible creature at her window. The vision frightened her so much that she awoke and sleep was gone for good. She told her story to the group the next evening and Percy encouraged her to write it down. Thus was born Frankenstein and his Creature, and if you read the book, you will see how Percy Shelley contributed much of his own style, philosophy of the sublime, and autobiographical details.
4Just as finances were looking really tight, old grandfather Sir Bysshe Shelley the Baronet died. For 18 months, Percy Shelley negotiated with his father over the settlement of the will, but doubtless found some money here and there to keep up his special diet and drinking habits. At last he was given enough to pay his debts (and Percy sneaked some to Godwin), plus an annual income of 1,000 pounds. They needed it badly. Harriet had two children, her second child, Charles, being born 30 November 1814. In February, Mary's first child was born, but prematurely, and it died March 6. Percy must have convinced her in her grief that she was still a hot young mama, for their son William was born in January 1816. Lord Byron left England the following April, and the Shelley Trio (Percy, Mary, and Claire) joined him in Geneva, Switzerland, in May, and stayed till the end of August.
5The couple, giddy with love, naturally chose precisely Paris in July of 1814 as the destination for their elopment. Maybe they hadn't been reading the headlines? The Allies against Napoleonic imperialism had captured Paris. Napoleon, his back to the wall, was deposed (pulled off the throne) and then forced to abdicate (give up all claim of sovereign power) and, finally, to get the hell outta Dodge. Louis XVIII was proclaimed King, and everything was hectic, what with France being war-ravaged and all. So... Percy and his party, consisting of his girlfriend Mary Godwin, Mary's step-sister, Mary Jane (later "Claire") Clairmont, who yearned with obsessive desire for Lord Byron, decided that Paris didn't look good, just this week, to relax and stroll and eat crepes in outdoor bistros without a care. They packed quickly for Switzerland, but visited there only a few weeks before returning to England. The "Frankenstein Weekend" party still lay in the future.
6In October of 1812, Percy met William Godwin, the father of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; he and the old man got on well, since Percy flattered Godwin's rhetoric in Godwin's publications reasoning that marriage is a travesty and that love should be free. Percy already had a wife, but encountering the charms of the lovely teenager Mary made him agree with Godwin's philosophy. Godwin was not pleased to discover that his prescriptions for the betterment of England were to take place at once, here, in his own home -- had in fact led to Percy and Mary deciding to elope. If Percy's ex-wife wanted to live in a bigamist home, that was her foolish business, but Godwin did not intend his own beautiful, bright darling girl to become ensnared by a man - a poet! - who believed in love and parties more than he believed in responsibility.
7Around February of 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg wrote a treatise called "The Necessity of Atheism" and passed it to friends and other students of University College (in Oxford) to read. On 25 March 1811, Shelley and Hogg were expelled from school for refusing to answer questions about who had written it, though we may assume they were really expelled for their atheistic beliefs.
8Bysshe Shelley, Percy's grandfather, was created Sir Bysshe Shelley, baronet, in 1806, when Percy was 14 years old.

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Two Fauns2010Short
Earth and Moon in Love2004Short
Gothic1986story
Zastrozzi: A Romance1986TV Mini-Series novel - 4 episodes
The Cloud1919poem

Miscellaneous

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International Relations Theory Illustrated #1 Realism2012Video short epigraph

Thanks

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International Relations Theory Illustrated #1 Realism2012Video short special thanks
Count the Ways1975acknowledgment: poetry courtesy of

Known for movies

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