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This essay by Colin Jager engages Percy Shelley’s avowed atheism, the historical context for his ‘unbelief,’ and its manifestations in his poetry. I found the article on JSTOR while doing research for a professor. While it’s outside of my area of interest, I found it interesting for its readings of Shelley’s poetry qua atheistic poetry and for its historical reconstruction of the emergence in late eighteenth-century England of conflicting beliefs and their disavowals.