“There Is No God” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I Will Beget a Son” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Necessity! Thou Mother of the World!”
A Fragment of A Refutation of Deism
[A Refutation of the Christian Religion] (1814?)
A Fragment on Miracles (1813-1815)
On Polytheism (1819?)
Religious issues are found in Shelley's poetry as well, readily available on the web. Shelley's first long poem, Queen Mab, got him into trouble. Here it is:
Queen Mab, A Philosophical Poem (1813)
Here is the Wikipedia entry:
Queen Mab (poem)
A collection of outstanding Shelley quotations can be found on:
Positive Atheism's Big List of Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotations
Note also these appreciations:
Shelley's Atheism by G. W. Foote (August 4, 1892)
Shelley: Angelic Atheist by Gary Sloan (October 13, 2003). Also published in Eclectica Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3, Jul/Aug 2003.
And for an interesting contextualization, see:
Baulch, David M. Review: "Martin Priestman, Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830." Romanticism On the Net 21 (February 2001).
Shelley also inspired an atheist conference in India:
The Necessity of Atheism: Impressions from the 6th World Atheist Conference (
Here is a page of useful resources:
VoS: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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