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{{AFC submission|||ts=20101017213202|u=76.234.154.210|ns=5}} <!--- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. --->The Devil's Walk: A Ballad was a major poetical work published as a broadside by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] in 1812. <ref>MacCarthy, Denis Florence. ''Shelly's Early Life From Original Sources''. London: Hotten, 1872.</ref> The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. <ref name="multiple">Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref> The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. <ref name="multiple}>Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref>The poem was modeled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[Robert Southey]].<ref>Chewning, Harris. "William Michael Rossetti and the Shelley Renaissance." ''Keats-Shelley Journal'', Vol. 4, (Winter, 1955), pp. 81-96.</ref>The work is important in Shelley's development and evolution of writings that castigate and criticize the British government in order to achieve political and economic reform. <ref name="multiple">Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref>
{{AFC submission|||ts=20101017213202|u=76.234.154.210|ns=5}} <!--- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. --->The Devil's Walk: A Ballad was a major poetical work published as a broadside by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] in 1812. <ref>MacCarthy, Denis Florence. ''Shelly's Early Life From Original Sources''. London: Hotten, 1872.</ref> The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. <ref name="multiple">Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref> The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. <ref name="multiple}>Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref>The poem was modeled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[Robert Southey]].<ref>Chewning, Harris. "William Michael Rossetti and the Shelley Renaissance." ''Keats-Shelley Journal'', Vol. 4, (Winter, 1955), pp. 81-96.</ref>The work is important in Shelley's development and evolution of writings that castigate and criticize the British government in order to achieve political and economic reform. <ref name="multiple">Forman, Harry Buxton. ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley''. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.</ref>

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The Devil's Walk

The Devil's Walk: A Ballad was a major poetical work published as a broadside by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812. [1] The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. [2] The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. [3]The poem was modeled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.[4]The work is important in Shelley's development and evolution of writings that castigate and criticize the British government in order to achieve political and economic reform. [2]

References

  1. ^ MacCarthy, Denis Florence. Shelly's Early Life From Original Sources. London: Hotten, 1872.
  2. ^ a b Forman, Harry Buxton. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.
  3. ^ Forman, Harry Buxton. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.
  4. ^ Chewning, Harris. "William Michael Rossetti and the Shelley Renaissance." Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 4, (Winter, 1955), pp. 81-96.


Sources

  • Forman, Harry Buxton. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877. p. 371.
  • Chewning, Harris. "William Michael Rossetti and the Shelley Renaissance." Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 4, (Winter, 1955), pp. 81-96.
  • McCarthy, Denis Florence. Shelly's Early Life From Original Sources. London: Hotten, 1872.
  • Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, "On Devils, and the Devil; or Vice's Versus". Romantic Circles. Electronic resource, University of Maryland.
  • Adriana Craciun, Loyola University Chicago, "Heavenly Medicine in Hellish Songs: Diabolical Hypertext". Romantic Circles Electronic Resource.
  • Neil Fraistat, "The 'Devil' to Edit: Time, Space and Hypertextuality", University of Maryland. Romantic Circles.
  • Robert Griffin, Tel Aviv University, "The Mode of Existence of Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'".
  • Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University, "Meaning and the Mode of Existence of 'Works': A Response to Robert J. Griffin, "The Mode of Existence of Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'".
  • Michael O'Neill, University of Durham, UK, "'A Hellish Song': Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'"
  • Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, Response.
  • Morton Paley, University of California, Berkeley, "'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Devil's Thoughts'"
  • Bruce Graver, Providence College, Response.
  • Don Reiman, University of Delaware, "Shelley and Popular Culture: 'The Devil's Walk'"
  • Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University, Response.
  • Chris Foss, Texas Christian University, "Satiric Verses: On Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Mask of Anarchy'".
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