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    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England""
    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England""
    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England""
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    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England""

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    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England"," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535817240
    A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England""

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      A Study Guide for Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Song "Men of England"" - Gale

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      Song to the Men of England

      Percy Bysshe Shelley

      1819

      Introduction

      While Percy Bysshe Shelley is often thought of today primarily as a poet, he is also an important figure in the history of the democratization of western Europe and of the development of socialism. He formed a theory of nonviolent resistance to oppression and was acknowledged as an inspiration by Gandhi. Shelley developed his political ideas in poetic form. His early work Queen Mab was perhaps his most influential, becoming known as the bible of the Chartists (a movement for democratic reform in England in the 1830s), but the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, in which a crowd of working class men, women, and children demanding the broadening of the right to vote were attacked by the British army, inspired Shelley to produced a torrent of political poems and pamphlets calling for political revolution. Among them was his 1819 poem Song to the Men of England, which can be found in most larger collections of Shelley's verse, for instance, the standard textbook English Romantic Writers.

      Shelley is recognized as one of the great poets of the second generation of romantics in the early nineteenth century, alongside John Keats and George Gordon, Lord Byron. Poems like Ozymandias and To a Skylark single him out as among the greatest lyric poets in English from any period. He also produced longer works of great psychological and literary depth such as Prometheus Unbound and The Witch of Atlas that are comparable to the work of John Milton or T. S. Eliot. However, relatively little of Shelley's work was published in his own lifetime, and, given the very rich manuscript sources of Shelley's writings that survive, not all of his extant poetry has yet been published.

      Author Biography

      Shelley was born to aristocratic parents in Sussex, England, on August 4, 1792. His grandfather was a baronet whose title was eventually inherited by Shelley's son, Percy Florence, whose mother was Shelley's

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