English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1207 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The idea
Percy Bysshe Shelley, an aristocrat expelled from Oxford over The Necessity of Atheism, was a radical, a Platonist and the anchor's "most intellectual" Romantic. He eloped with Mary Godwin, wrote most of his major work in Italy, and drowned sailing in eighteen twenty-two.
In practice
Atheist, radical, idealist.
Where people slip
Shelley's politics run through his lyrics.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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