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The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance.
Aug 16, 2019 · Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, the most celebrated literary response to the Peterloo massacre – which has its bicentenary on 16 August – drew on accounts of the tragedy written by the radical journalist and freethinker, Richard Carlile. This changes how we read The Mask of Anarchy.
The impetus was the so-called Peterloo Massacre, on August 16, 1819, in the industrializing city of Manchester: an armed cavalry, summoned by infuriated local magistrates, charged with sabers drawn into a crowd of 60,000 peaceful demonstrators, murdering at least 10 and wounding hundreds more.
The Yeomanry (a sort of local militia) charged the crowd on horseback, and then the 15th Hussars (a cavalry regiment of the regular British Army), followed, cutting through the crowds with bared sabres. According to official figures, at least 11 were killed and 421 injured.
Aug 7, 2023 · What was the Peterloo Massacre? 7 August 2023. On 16 August 1819 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester, with demands for the right to vote, freedom from oppression, and justice. We asked PHM’s Researcher Dr Shirin Hirsch to explain how, despite its peaceful beginning, this was a day that would end with a bloody outcome.
Oct 20, 2018 · That same combination of pity and terror can be discovered in a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley as a response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, The Mask of Anarchy. This poem was never...
At the time of composing this poem, Shelley without doubt had the Peterloo Massacre of August 1819 in mind. His other poems written at the same time—"The Masque of Anarchy", Prometheus Unbound, and "England in 1819"—take up these same themes of political change, revolution, and role of the poet. [3] Genre.
