Percy Shelley's Letters Hit the News -- Again in Literature

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1827) was a Romantic poets, famous for his radical ideas, for his odes, and for Adonais to John Keats. He died at the age of 30, on July 8, 1822. In letters recently auctioned off at Christie's auction house, we get a view of Shelley's views when he was at Oxford University Press. He wrote: "Christ never existed... the fall of man, the whole fabric indeed of superstition which it supports can no longer obtain the credit of philosophers." Read more about the letters, from BBC News. Read on.

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