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Writing to older correspondents, Shelley blanched demurely at the thought of class uprisings. Yet when deeper thoughts were goaded out of him, they bore bloodstains. In 1819, after demonstrating workers in Manchester were annihilated in the Peterloo massacre, Shelley roared...
...clock: For the enthusiastic medievalist Professors Deknatel and Gaehde will survey art (Fine Arts 140), from the catacombs to Chartres in the Fogg Small Lecture Room. Professor Owen brings England from Peterloo to present lingering over the Victorian ripeness. His history 142b will be held in Longfellow Alumnae Room. Time editor Louis Kronenberger, also Soohie Tucker Professor at Brandeis, will discuss, in English 165, comic drama in Emerson...
...balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression, Castlereagh slit his throat with a penknife...
...though ostracized by such respectable English tourists as Walter Savage Landor, Shelley wrote the poetry by which he is best remembered. He thought Keats "a rival who will surpass me" and invited the dying poet to join him; Keats was touched but had enough sense not to. After the "Peterloo massacre" of working people in Manchester, Shelley wrote his Mask of Anarchy, a revolutionary poem of memorable drive...
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