The poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the sea and yachting but never learnt to swim. On July 8, 1822 he drowned whilst sailing in a sudden storm as he traveled back to Lerici, Italy in his schooner, the Don Juan. When his body was washed up on the beach two books were found, a slim edition of The Works of Sophocles and a volume of Keats' poems still clutched in his hand. Shelley was cremated soon afterwards on the beach near Viareggio attended by his anguished friends including Lord Byron.
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The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier (1889) |
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