'Laon and Cythna': a poem by P. B. Shelley; 1817. Autograph fair copy, with two revisions, of Canto I, stanza VII (ll. 181-189), written on one side only of a fragment of white wove paper, 111 x 145mm. No watermark. This fragment may once have been a... 1817

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'Laon and Cythna': a poem by P. B. Shelley; 1817. Autograph fair copy, with two revisions, of Canto I, stanza VII (ll. 181-189), written on one side only of a fragment of white wove paper, 111 x 145mm. No watermark. This fragment may once have been a... 1817

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...