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Shelley was anti-religious and a skeptic his whole life and promoted a poetic program where--like [[William Blake|Blake]]--the individual imagination is the sole authority on matters of truth. His play ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imagination/creative life in the story of Prometheus. In critic Harold Bloom's reading, the plays characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon bear resemblances to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. <ref>(Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)</ref>
Shelley was anti-religious and a skeptic his whole life and promoted a poetic program where--like [[William Blake|Blake]]--the individual imagination is the sole authority on matters of truth. His play ''Prometheus Unbound'' explores his interest in a renewed imagination/creative life in the story of Prometheus. In critic Harold Bloom's reading, the plays characters Prometheus, Asia, Jupiter and Demogorgon bear resemblances to the psychic constructs of other writers including Blake, [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. <ref>(Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Cornell University, New York 1971, p. 90-91)</ref>
Shelley's major poems include: ''Alastor'', ''Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'', ''Mont Blanc'', ''Ode to the West Wind'', ''Prometheus Unbound'', ''The Witch of Atlas'', ''Epipsychidion'', ''Adonais'', and the ''Triumph of Life''.
Shelley's major poems include: ''Ozymandias'', ''Alastor'', ''Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'', ''Mont Blanc'', ''Ode to the West Wind'', ''Prometheus Unbound'', ''The Witch of Atlas'', ''Epipsychidion'', ''Adonais'', and the ''Triumph of Life''.
He also wrote an "Essay on Christianity" which attempts to read Jesus as an ethic philosopher whose great teachings have been corrupted by the institutional religion called Christianity.
He also wrote an "Essay on Christianity" which attempts to read Jesus as an ethic philosopher whose great teachings have been corrupted by the institutional religion called Christianity.