Masks of Anarchy

Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Shelley''s "The Masque of Anarchy," its conception in Italy, its suppression in England, and how it became a rallying cry for workers across the Atlantic a century later. "Shake your chains to earth like dew," it implores. "Ye are many-they are few."
In 1819, British troops attacked a peaceful crowd of demonstrators near Manchester, killing and maim...