LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Because he was catholic
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Because he was protestant
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Because he was an atheist
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Because he want to fight
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Detailed explanation-1: -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was born in Field Place, the family home in Sussex, and educated at Eton College. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was expelled in 1811 after publishing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism.
Detailed explanation-2: -"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-3: -Percy Bysshe Shelley, The necessity of atheism (Worthing, [1811]). This small tract is a very rare survival of one of the two pamphlets which were published by Percy Bysshe Shelley during his brief career (six months) at University College, Oxford.
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).