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b"Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off the coast of Tuscany on 8th July, 1822. His wife, Mary Shelley, waited an agonizing ten days to discover news of the dramatic shipwreck.\\nAnnouncing the news of the atheist\\u2019s death, conservative London newspaper The Courier reported, \\u201cShelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned. Now he knows whether or not there is a God.\\u201d\\xa0\\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly revisit the \\u2018Shelleybaits\\u2019 his contemporaries at Eton would bully him with; reveal the complex love triangle between Shelley, Mary\\u2019s sister Claire, and their infamous friend Lord Byron; and explain how, for two centuries now, Shelley\\u2019s death has been exaggerated and sentimentalized\\u2026\\nFurther Reading:\\n\\u2022 \\u2018Mysterious Drownings\\u2019 (History Today, 2012): https://www.historytoday.com/mysterious-drownings\\n\\u2022 \\u2018Death and destiny\\u2019 (The Guardian, 2004): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview1\\n\\u2022 \\u2018Talk: Peter Halstead on the Death of Shelley\\u2019 (Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTHYzfrY04\\nFor bonus material and to support the show, visit\\xa0Patreon.com/Retrospectors\\nWe'll be back on Monday! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King.\\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022.\\xa0\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"