Shelley could have been reinstated if his father had intervened, but this would have required his disavowing the pamphlet and declaring himself a Christian. In 1811, Shelley continued this prolific outpouring with more publications, including another pamphlet that he wrote and circulated with Hogg titled “The Necessity of Atheism,” which got him expelled from Oxford after less than a year. That same year, Shelley and another student, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, published a pamphlet of burlesque verse, “Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson,” and with his sister Elizabeth, Shelley published Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. Robinson, 1810), in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi. He began writing poetry while at Eton, but his first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (G. He attended Eton College for six years beginning in 1804, and then went on to Oxford University. The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, with one brother and four sisters, he stood in line to inherit not only his grandfather’s considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England.
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