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born into what kind of family?
wealthy
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where did he go to school?
- boarding school at age 10
- was bullied there
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what did he embrace?
atheism
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known as a champion for who?
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name of pamplet he wrote about atheism?
on necessity of atheism
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what happened after he realesed the pamphlett?
- got expelled from oxford even though he thought it was an amazing writing
- **scandalized his family
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thomas hogg?
friend at oxford who helped him write the pamphlet
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what did he do when he went to scotland?
eloped with harriet westbrook
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how was harriet abused by her father?
he made her go to school
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who did he abandon harriet for?
mary wollstonecraft godwin
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what did he view himself as?
an outcast
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what did harriet do after she divorced shelley?
drowned herself
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masterpiece?
prometheus unbound
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how did he die?
drowned when his boat capsized
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what did byron think of shelley?
- he thought he was the best man he ever knew
- *said this ever shelley died
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how many kids did he have?
2
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full name?
percy byshe shelley
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wrote?
- ozymandias
- ode to the west wind
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what happened when mary, percy and byron where living together?
bryon gets claire pregnant and they blame shelley
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claire claremont?
- moves in with shelly, mary and byron
- **scandal
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ozymandias?
- fame is fleeting
- he was mighty when he was alive, doesnt mean you'll be famous forever
- *the mighty fall sooner of later
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another name for ozymandias?
ramsys II
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Ode to the west wind?
- represents a life cycle, seasons change throughout poem
- senses are present
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what does death equate to in ode to west wind?
equates to winter, falling of leaves
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how is wind and destroyed and preserver? *from ode to west wind
- blows seeds everywhere (renew) -preserve
- but also destroys old plants
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