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Can Spring Be Far Behind?

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  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 0:46 Shelley and Byron
  • 3:06 Ghost of Shelley enters
  • 3:50 Early life
  • 5:02 Education at Syon and Eton
  • 8:51 Expelled from Oxford
  • 12:14 Further development of idealism
  • 16:29 Political development 
  • 20:40 Queen Mab
  • 24:02 Ozymandias
  • 26:40 Ode to the West Wind
  • 35:22 Sources and Outro


  • Learn how Percy Shelley got kicked out of Oxford
  • Learn how Shelley wanted a threesome in his marriage
  • Learn how Shelley was big on free love and not eating meat
  • Learn how Shelley combined his very liberal politics with his poetry

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Can Spring Be Far Behind?

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