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ARCHIVE: Underwater legacy of a poet; Chris Upton looks at the irony of poet Shelley's one-time plans to live in The Elan Valley, long since flooded to provide Birmingham with its main water supply.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20060225
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Byline: Chris Upton

In June 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley stayed at Cwm Elan House in Wales. The Romantic poet was just approaching his 19th birthday, and half-way through something of a rather testing year.

He had recently been thrown out of Oxford University because of his espousal of atheism, and would shortly be eloping to Scotland with a 16-year-old girl.

The choice of Cwm Elan for this turbulent vacation is not difficult to determine. The house was owned by Shelley's cousin, Thomas Grove' it was at arm's length from polite society, but not a million miles from ...

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