LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Wrote about Corporal punishment
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Wrote about Atheism
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Wrote about Christianity
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Wrote about the Nobility
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Detailed explanation-1: -After only two terms as a first-year undergraduate, Shelley had been sent down. Their offence was ‘contumaciously refusing to answer questions … and also repeatedly declining to disavow a publication entitled The Necessity of Atheism.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the fall of 1810 Shelley entered University College, Oxford, where he enlisted his fellow student Thomas Jefferson Hogg as a disciple. But in March 1811, University College expelled both Shelley and Hogg for refusing to admit Shelley’s authorship of The Necessity of Atheism.
Detailed explanation-3: -After less than a year at Oxford, he was expelled for writing and circulating a pamphlet promoting atheism. At 19, Shelley eloped to Scotland with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The Necessity of Atheism” is an essay on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by Charles and William Phillips in Worthing while Shelley was a student at University College, Oxford.
Detailed explanation-5: -How did Shelley’s career at Oxford University end? He graduated with top honors.