Percy Florence Shelley Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood left him as the only surviving child as his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822. His parents lived in Italy for several years, until his father drowned off Livorno, whereupon his mother moved back to England with him. Mary Shelley never remarried; Percy Florence had no further siblings. He joined Harrow School in 1832, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1837. Shelley inherited
Percy Bysshe Shelley Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein". Shelley is perhaps best known for classic poems such as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "Music, When Soft Voices Die", "The Cloud" and "The Masque of Anarchy." His other major works include a groundbreaking verse drama "The Cenci" (1819) and long, visionary, philosophical poems such as "Queen Mab" (later reworked as "The Daemon of the World"), "Alastor", "The Revolt of Islam", "Adonaïs", "Prometheus Unbound" (1820)—widely considered to be his masterpiece—"Hellas: A Lyrical Drama" (1821), and his final, unfinished work, "The Triumph of Life" (1822).