Percy Bysshe Shelley Hunt, was later asked by John Bedford Leno whether he preferred Shelley or Byron as a man. He replied: On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his thirtieth birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia while returning from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his sailing boat, the "Don Juan." He was returning from having set up "The Liberal" with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. The name "Don Juan", a compliment to Byron, was chosen by Edward John Trelawny, a member of the Shelley–Byron Pisan circle. However, according to Mary Shelley's testimony, Shelley changed
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).