Death Centenary of Shelley observed in Santiniketan

Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley (née Godwin) was his second wife.

He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as "Ozymandias", Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which included Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonaïs and the unfinished work The Triumph of Life. The Cenci (1819) and Prometheus Unbound (1820) were dramatic plays in five and four acts respectively.
On 8 July 1822, less than a month before his 30th birthday, Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his schooner, Don Juan
Before starting for Calcutta on 8th July in the morning, Rabindranath joined the death centenary of Shelley in Santiniketan . It was reported   in Santiniketan in the following lines;
" Two meetings, one in the morning and the other in the evening, were heid to commemorate the death centenary of P.B.Shelley. In the morning Gurudev was present and discussed about the life and works of Shelley. In the evening the two students of Viswa Bharati Sree Amiya Kumar Chakraborty and Pramatha Nath Bishi read two poems of Shelley."
Rabindranath took the train for Calcutta in the afternoon.