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Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England In 1819"


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Percy Bysshe Shelley is angry--angry at the disenfranchisement, political unrest, authoritarian rule, and top-down rot in the England of his day. But he might as well have been talking about ours, predicting us almost two hundred years ago. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, in reading and thinking about this provocative sonnet.
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Lyric LifeBy Mark Scarbrough