ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -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: -On 25 March 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg were publicly expelled from University College, Oxford. On the following morning, after breakfast, they took their places on the outside of a London-bound coach.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nonetheless, the pamphlet (titled The Necessity of Atheism, a fact Hogg does not mention in his account) caused enough of a stir in Oxford that the Master of Univ was forced to get involved. When Shelley refused to deny that he had written it, he was expelled.