The Masque of Anarchy
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The Masque of Anarchy is a British political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statemen
1832 first edition, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Edward Moxon, London.
1842 title page, with added poems "Queen Liberty" and "Song-To the Men of England", J. Watson, London.
The final verse quoted on the tombstone of Paul Foot
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint
The Revolt of Islam
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The Revolt of Islam is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817. The poem was originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vis
The Masque of Anarchy
…sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse". The epigraph on the cover of the first edition is from Shelley's The Revolt of Islam (1818): "Hope is strong; Justice and Truth their winged child have found." Shelley wrote the poem while living in Italy in conjunction with other similar…
Cover, circa 1818
Laon and Cythna. Title page. London. 1818.