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ENGLAND IN 1819. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,—. Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow. Through public scorn, mud from a muddy spring,—. Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,—. A people starved and stabbed in the ...
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 1819
Shelley begins ‘England in 1819’ with several lines attacking a ‘King’ and ‘Princes’. In 1819, the ‘dying King’ was George III, who was in his early eighties and had been on the British throne for nearly sixty years (he would die the year later, in 1820).
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What prompted “England in 1819”? 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.
Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’ critiques the era’s corruption, envisioning change from the decay of a “mad, blind” king’s rule. Read Poem. PDF Guide.
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England in 1819. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow. Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling. Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
The speaker describes the state of England in 1819. The king is “old, mad, blind, despised, and dying.”
