Bibliograph

Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and revolutionary, Jacqueline Mulhallen

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and revolutionary, Jacqueline Mulhallen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Responsibility statement

Jacqueline Mulhallen

Series statement

Revolutionary lives

Sub title

poet and revolutionary

Summary

This biography explores the foundation of Shelley's revolutionary politics his anger at a system in which the rich lived luxuriously at the expense of the poor and oppressed, causing war, colonialism and suffering. An anti-monarchist and a forerunner of civil disobedience, his poetry was considered blasphemous and seditious, and was pirated by the radical press to reach new working class audiences. His revolutionary ideals were espoused by all those fighting for a more equal society, and his work inspired radical movements and thinkers including the Chartists, Marx and Gandhi. Today his words are still used, from Tiananmen Square to the anti-austerity struggles across Europe

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