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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]

Background

The poem was written in 1812 by Shelley to protest the actions of the British government. The poem emerged after the food riots in Devon where Shelley lived at that time. Prices for grain were at their highest level in 1812.[4] Shelley attacked "a brainless King" and the "princely paunch" and "each brawny haunch" of the Prince Regent.[5] The members of both houses of Parliament and the Church were also castigated.[6]

References

  1. ^ MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 1872
  2. ^ a b c Forman, Harry Buxton, 1877, p. 371
  3. ^ Chewning, Harris, 1955, pp. 81-96
  4. ^ Gilmour, Ian. The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time. NY: Carrol and Graf, 2002, pp. 334-336.
  5. ^ Gilmour, Ian. The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time. NY: Carrol and Graf, 2002, pp. 334-336.
  6. ^ Gilmour, Ian. The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time. NY: Carrol and Graf, 2002, pp. 334-336.

Sources

  • Forman, Harry Buxton. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Reeves and Turner, 1877.
  • Chewning, Harris. "William Michael Rossetti and the Shelley Renaissance." Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 4, (Winter 1955).
  • 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.
  • Fraistat, Neil; Jones, Steven E. "Electronic resource on "The Devil's Walk"". Romantic Circles. University of Maryland.
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