ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -How did Shelley’s career at Oxford University end? He graduated with top honors.

Detailed explanation-4: -They may well have been the words he was most famous (or infamous) for in his lifetime. Shelley’s atheism and his political philosophy was at the heart of his poetry and his revolutionary agenda (yes, he had one).

Detailed explanation-5: -"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.