Content. Intorduction. Chapter. I. Percy Shelley and her biography

Conclusion.
In conclusion, Percy Bysshe Shelley had all the advantages of wealth and rank, and hence much was expected of him, thus in noble blood Shelley was more fortunate than most of his contemporaries, considering the estimate that England placed upon the distinction of caste.At the age of ten Shelley was placed in the public school of Sion House, but the harsh treatment of instructors and school-fellows rendered his life most unpleasant. Such treatment might have been called out by his fondness for wild romances and his devotion to reading instead of more solid school work. Shelley was next sent to Eton, where his sensitive nature was again deeply wounded by ill usage. He finally revolted against all authority, and this disposition manifested itself strongly in Eton. And then, in Oxford University, his peculiar views, where he seemed to be constant in his thought and speculations. His expulsion from Oxford led also to an inexcusable confusion in his social life. He eloped first with Miss Harriet Westbrook, what caused Shelley‘s father cuting off his allowance. He eloped for a second time with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who according to him`feel poetry and understand philosophy’. His unfortunate first wife committed suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine River in December, 1816, and Shelley married Miss Godwin a few weeks afterward. Upon his return to London, it was found that by the deed, the fee-simple of the Shelley estate would pass to the poet upon his father’s death. Accordingly he was enabled to raise money with which he purchased an annuity from his father.
He drawn from a boat and dead in 1822 and a complete edition of “Shelley’s Poetical Works” with notes by his widow was published in four volumes in 1839.
All this means he went against convention, that’s why many pepople called him “Mad Shelley“, because he was a revolutionary, but in fact, he looked upon the world with the eyes of a visionary bent on unattainable schemes of intellectual excellence and supremacy. His delusion led to misery and made him, for a time, unjust to others. It alienated him from his family and friends, blasted his prospects in life, and distempered all his views and opinions. It is probable that, had he lived to a riper age, he might have modified some of those extreme speculative and pernicious tenets, and we have no doubt that he would have risen into a purer atmosphere of poetical imagination. He had worn out some of his fierce antipathies and morbid affections; a happy domestic circle was gathered around him, and the refined simplicity of his tastes and habits, joined to wider and juster views of human life, would imperceptibly have given a new tone to his thoughts and studies. The splendor of his lyrical verse and the grandeur of some of his conceptions, stamp him a great poet. His influence on the succession of English poets since his time has been inferior only to that of Wordsworth. His diction is singularly classical and imposing in sound and structure. The descriptive passages in “Alastor” and the river-voyage at the conclusion of the “Revolt of Islam,” are among the most finished of his productions. His better genius leads him to the pure waters and the depth of forest shades, which none of his contemporaries knew so well how to describe. For many people he is the ideal of the romantic poet.