Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. ... Ozymandias or To A Skylark are a great introduction to Shelley's poems if you want to read his works.

A radical poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley when he was just 18 years old can now be read in full despite having been kept under lock and key for the last 204 years.