Shelley AO3

Question 1

Necessity of Atheism 1811

Answer 1

Deliberately provocative pamphlets given that in those days most dons were churchmen

Written whilst at Oxford, resulting in his removal

Question 2

William Godwin’s Political Justice 1693

Answer 2

Against marriage

Should be free to form relationships “regulated by the dictates of reason and duty” not the Church and state

Question 3

Harriet’s suicide 1816

Answer 3

Drowned herself in Hyde Park in Serpentine Lake

“may you enjoy the happiness which you have deprived me of”

Question 4

Preface to Shelley’s Posthumous Poems 1824

Answer 4

“his life was spent in the contemplation of nature in acts of kindness and affection… he could interpret the varied phenomena of heaven and earth filled him with emotion. Ill health and continual pain preyed upon his powers”

Question 5

Dante’s Purgatorio

Answer 5

The Question is a loose adaptation of Canto 28
- gave Shelley more poetic notability

Used a form used by Dante
- terza rima in Ode to the West Wind