History & The Arts
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
...world by an 18 year old radical. First and foremost the young Shelley issues a pointed condemnation of the militaristic stance of the British establishment, along with stanzas that are vehemently anti-monarchist and implacably opposed to the abuses of wealth that were prevalent at the time: “Man must assert his native rights, must say; We take from Monarchs’ hand the...