This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Principal Players Introduction: 'The Radical Ladder' PART I: PETERLOO Peterloo Myth-Making: Samuel Bamford and Peterloo William Hone's Peterloo Shelley: Doggerel and Dialectics PART II: THE CATO STREET CONSPIRACY The Cato Street Tragedy Charles Lamb and the Spy System Byron, Cato Street and Marino Faliero PART III: THE QUEEN CAROLINE CONTROVERSY Introducing the Players Byron and the Loyalists Shelley and the Radicals Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
