Love’s Philosophy

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

-Shelley was a Romantic poet. Romanticism was huge movement in 18th and 19th century literature, whereby writers focused on the power of (and connections between) human emotion and the natural world.
-The poem was first published in 1819.
-Shelley’s use of religion as a persuasive technique in the poem is ironic as he was an atheist (didn’t believe in God), a highly controversial viewpoint in the 19th Century.