Read a Britannica article on King George IV, the Prince Regent and effective ruler of England during the period in which Shelley wrote the poem.
Watch a Smithsonian Channel video on the mental illness of King George III, one of the issues to which Shelley responded in "England in 1819." Watch a BBC video about the Peterloo Massacre, one of the events that inspired Shelley's fury in "England in 1819." "The Masque of Anarchy", another famous Shelley poem inspired by the Peterloo Massacre of 1819). Considered a prime example of the poet’s passionate language and symbolic imagery, the ode invokes the spirit of the West Wind, Destroyer and Preserver, the spark of creative vitality. Shelley is generally considered to be one of the greatest Romantic poets. Ode to the West Wind, poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written at a single sitting on Oct. Read the poem as printed in "The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (1839, edited by Mary Shelley), where it appears for the first time under the title "England in 1819." For those of you who have not read it, the poem Ozymandias is a very famous sonnet that was written in 1818 by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Read an introduction to Shelley's life and work at the Poetry Foundation.
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