Articles by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The Mask of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020

Written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre at Manchester, 1819. Cavalry soldiers slashed down at a crowd of 60,000 citizens with their sabres, including women and children who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament and were suffering from unemployment and famine due to the Corn Laws. Shelley’s call for nonviolent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.

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The Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2017

Shelley wrote his poem in response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in Manchester on 16 August 1819. Cavalry soldiers of the government charged a crowd of 50,000 citizens who were peacefully assembled to ask for better representation in Parliament. This poem advocating non-violent resistance to tyranny was an inspiration to Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi.

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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2017

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

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