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Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley from Johnson's, Intellectuals?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English poet and heir to a Baronetcy title. He was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England. He had four younger children and was educated for six years at Eton and then attended Oxford but was expelled for his anti-religious beliefs. In August 1811, he married Harriet Westbrook. They had two children, Eliza Ianthe and Charles. Shelley left her in July 1814 and she died the following December. He had a total of seven children by three different women. Shelley died in a boating accident in Italy.

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