Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet. Born in Sussex, he was educated at University College, Oxford, but expelled in 1811 for circulating a pamphlet on atheism. The publication of Alastor in 1816 brought him public recognition, followed by Shelley's composition of two philosophic poems much influenced by Wordsworth: the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc, while the death of Keats inspired Adonais (1821). A close friend of Byron 's, he died in a drowning accident in August 1822 (see Ruskin and Shelley).