Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Field Place on 4th August 1792. His ancestors had been Sussex aristocrats since early in seventeenth century. His grandfather, Sir Bysshe Shelley, made himself the richest man in Horsham and his father, Timothy Shelley, was hard-headed and conventional Member of Parliament.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was sent to be educated at Eton and then he continued his studies at Oxford. By that time he published two spy stories and a book of verse. At Oxford in the autumn of 1810, Shelley and his closest friend, Thomas Jefferson H…