{"id":3968,"date":"2012-12-15T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2014-01-03T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:59:21","slug":"shelley-at-oxford-a-timely-poem-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/12\/shelley-at-oxford-a-timely-poem-for-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Shelley at Oxford,’ a Timely Po<\/font>lem<\/font>ic for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Huxley Scientific Press [Oxford]<\/p><\/div> Written by Heathcote Williams<\/a>, montaged and narrated by Alan Cox, it has just arrived on YouTube and begins like this …<\/p>\n

In Oxford High Street, in 1810,
\nSlatter & Munday\u2019s Bookshop
\nHad a large, bow-fronted window
\nFor displaying their latest wares.<\/p>\n

Aged 19, Shelley flooded it with a pamphlet
\nOn \u2018The Necessity Of Atheism\u2019.
\nWhich he could only get printed in Worthing
\nSince no one in Oxford would touch it.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Listen here<\/strong>
(the words are slightly different in the audio):<\/font><\/center>
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