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" AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling... "
Poetic Form and British Romanticism - Page 55
by Stuart Curran - 1990 - 288 pages
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The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture

Rob Pope - 2002 - 446 pages
...2000, /oL 1:1424.l D ERCY SHELLEY/Sonnet: England in 1819', written 1819, 3uh. 1839 An old, mad, hlind, despised and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through puhlic scorn, - mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to...
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Graduate Citizens?: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education

John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore - 2003 - 212 pages
...that is being sought for: that to which Shelley is giving expression in his sonnet 'England' in 1819 ('An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king: Princes,...of their dull race, who flow through public scorn ...') and that he requested Hunt to convey in a different way in the paper he requests from him. Chandler...
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Poetry: The Basics

Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...purposes, as in Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) indignant sonnet 'England in 1819' which begins: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king Princes,...flow Through public scorn - mud from a muddy spring; These are ten-syllable lines but what dominates them is the heavy hitting of certain clustered syllables...
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Poetry: The Basics

Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...(1792-1822) indignant sonnet 'England in 1819' which begins: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying long Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn - mud from a muddy spring; These are ten-syllable lines but what dominates them is the heavy hitting of certain clustered syllables...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

Timothy Morton - 2006 - 188 pages
...range of his hopes and the long extension of his disappointments about his country's political ills. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes,...blood, without a blow. A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field; An army, whom liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;...
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Madame Tussaud: And the History of Waxworks

Pamela Pilbeam - 2006 - 326 pages
...mob. An 1819 sonnet written by the poet Shelley expressed a quite widely-held distaste for monarchy: An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, Princes,...know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling. When his eldest son was appointed Prince Regent in 1810, however, George III had become exactly the...
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Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839

Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...Wellington. The poet Shelley's opinion, couched a little more elegantly in verse, was equally pointed: Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through...neither see nor feel nor know But leech-like to their failing country cling. A King such as this was loathed and despised in his capital city, where his...
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