The 1819 Manchester Massacre and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Masque of Anarc

The 1819 Manchester abattoir and Percy Bysshe Shelleys Masque of AnarchySometimes a person is beyond all reach of society. Percy Bysshe Shelley was in Italy on solemn 16, 1819, during an plaint which shook his native England. The next month, word reached Italy, and upon receiving word of the disagree gone awry, he immediately started work on a poem, and perfect it before the end of the month (White 105). It became The Masque of Anarchy. Written in strike of the 1819 Manchester Massacre, it demonstrates Shelleys political stance, in that he detested the British government yet was terrified of the chaos and violence of a revolution. The Manchester Massacre, also called the Peterloo Massacre due to the name of the specific location--St. Peters Field--as well as its temporal proximity to the battle of Waterloo, took place on the field in the city, and featured such noted speakers of the day as Richard Carlile, John Cartwright, and total heat Hunt, all known for their contrarian v iews of the government (Bloy). The people there had gathered--fifty to sixty gee outside of the city of only two hundred thousand, a tail of the normal population--to protest, among other things, misrepresentation in Parliament (Manchester and other vernal industrial cities didnt have any parliamentary representation, but such(prenominal), much smaller townships did). However, such a large gathering, peaceful or not, would and did depend upon the suspicions of the government, especially a bloated and corrupt government like Englands in the early nineteenth century. The English government, fearful of a violent uprising, took the firstly strike and sent more than sixteen hundred troops cavalry, infantry, artillery, and even dispatched the local yeomanry and co... ... but also refreshes and soothes the mind from its radical feelings.Sources CitedBloy, Marjie. The Peterloo Massacre, 16 sumptuous 1819. A Web of English History. 18 Aug. 2001. 9 whitethorn 2002 .Cameron, Kenneth Ne ill. Shelley The fortunate Years. Cambridge Harvard, 1974.Map of Peterloo. Peterloo. 29 Dec. 2000. 9 May 2002 .Peterloo Massacre. Peterloo. 29 Dec. 2000. 9 May 2002 .Noyes, Russell. Percy Bysshe Shelley. English romantic Poetry and Prose. New York Oxford, 1967. 954-965.Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Mask of Anarchy. English Romantic Poetry and Prose. Ed. Russell Noyes. New York Oxford, 1967. 1052-1057.White, Newman Ivey. Shelley. Vol. 2. New York Octagon, 1972.