Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who was Percy Bysshe Shelley?
English Romantic poet who wrote influential works including Ozymandias and Prometheus Unbound, advocating for political and social reform. He was expelled from Oxford University for publishing a pamphlet on atheism and died at age 29 in Italy.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Percy Bysshe Shelley (CC BY-SA 4.0).