Lyric Life

Percy Bysshe Shelley is angry--angry at the disenfranchisement, political unrest, authoritarian rule, and top-down rot in the England of his day. But he might as well have been talking about ours, predicting us almost two hundred years ago. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, in reading and thinking about this provocative sonnet, less a lyric poem than a primal scream about the injustice of the world, set directly in his historical moment and yet ever so prescient.