Question

How did Shelley die?

• A. In a duel
• B. From tuberculosis
• C. In a boating accident
• D. In a horse riding accident

Answer 1

Answer:

C. In a boating accident

• On 8th July 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned when his boat overturned off the Italian coast.

• He'd been travelling home from visiting his friends, fellow Romantic poets, Lord Byron and James Leigh Hunt, to his home on the bay of Lerici in the north-west of the country.