Percy Bysshe Shelley October. On 10December 1816 the body of Shelley's estranged wife Harriet was found in an advanced state of pregnancy, drowned in the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. Shelley had made generous provision for Harriet and their children in his will and had paid her a monthly allowance as had her father. It is thought that Harriet, who had left her children with her sister Eliza and had been living alone under the name of Harriet Smith, mistakenly believed herself to have been abandoned by her new lover, 36-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Maxwell, who had been deployed abroad, after a landlady
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).