The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems
Bond, Paul
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/01/shel-o01.html
Date Written: 2019-10-01
Publisher: International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23938
The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
