The Devil's Walk
Appearance
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.[2] The poem was modeled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.[3] 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
- ^ MacCarthy, Denis Florence. Shelly's Early Life From Original Sources. London: Hotten, 1872.
- ^ a b c 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.
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'". Romantic Circles.
- 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'". Romantic Circles.
- Michael O'Neill, University of Durham, UK, "'A Hellish Song': Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'". Romantic Circles.
- Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, Response. Romantic Circles.
- Morton Paley, University of California, Berkeley, "'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Devil's Thoughts'". Romantic Circles.
- Bruce Graver, Providence College, Response. Romantic Circles.
- Don Reiman, University of Delaware, "Shelley and Popular Culture: 'The Devil's Walk'"
- Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University, Response. Romantic Circles.
- Chris Foss, Texas Christian University, "Satiric Verses: On Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Mask of Anarchy'". Romantic Circles.
External Links
- Electronic Resource on "The Devil's Walk" edited by Neil Fraistat and Steven E. Jones at Romantic Circles published by the University of Maryland: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/