A reading of Shelley's
interventionist poetry of 1819-20-including his
satires The Mask of Anarchy and Swellfoot
the Tyrant-as provocations, dialectical...
The Political House that Jack Built
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Epigraph, and Dedication
- The Political House that Jack Built
- The Clerical Magistrate
- (to begin reading from facsimile images)
- William Hone homepage and annotated bibliography
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Original publication date
1819
Published @ RC
March 1998
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