ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley died on July 8th, 1822 at the age of 29. He died off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia, which is on the north-western coast of Italy and in the northern part of the Tyrrhenian Sea. His boat was overturned during a storm that is described as happening suddenly.

Detailed explanation-2: -A favorite among our staff is the grim tale of Percy Shelley’s heart. When he was just shy of 30 years old in 1822, Percy Shelley and two fellow sailors tragically drowned during a boat trip across the Ligurian Sea; their bodies washed ashore ten days after a serious storm.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1818 Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley travelled to Italy on the advice of Percy’s doctors, but also to avoid their creditors. Over the next few years they travelled all over the country and it was a time of great creative output for them both.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shelley residences in Tuscany The two friends brought together the many Anglo-Italians of the cultural capital, bringing to life the “Pisan Circle”. The most lasting stay, however, was in Pisa, from 1920 to April 30, 1922. They held various addresses, up to their final one in Palazzo Chiesa, on lungarno Galilei.