The Mask of Anarchy

Download or read book The Mask of Anarchy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Masque of Anarchy is a British political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year. Shelley begins his poem, written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester 1819, with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time, "God, and King, and Law" – and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: "Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the free". In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance.