FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Suicide by drowning
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Suicide by carbon monoxide
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Suicide by hanging
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this letter six days after his first wife, Harriet, was ‘found drowned’ in the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park.
Detailed explanation-2: -On July 8th, 1822 the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the Bay of Lerici off the north-west coast of Italy when his small boat overturned in a squall. He was 29. Shelley and his wife Mary had settled in a cottage near Pisa.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was published in a collection of poems in 1820; Keats died the following year. In 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, returning from a visit to Lord Byron, drowned after his schooner, the Don Juan, capsized. His body washed up on the Tuscan shore a few days later. In his pocket was a copy of Keats’ poems.
Detailed explanation-4: -On 8th July 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned when his boat overturned off the Italian coast. He’d been travelling home from visiting his friends, fellow Romantic poets, Lord Byron and James Leigh Hunt, to his home on the bay of Lerici in the north-west of the country.