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Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things

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Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Although published anonymously, this work has been confirmed as Shelley's.
The notes have been linked to the approriate points in the text, and the listed errata incorporated.
1962363Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things1811Percy Bysshe Shelley

POETICAL ESSAY

ON THE

EXISTING STATE OF THINGS.

AND FAMINE AT HER BIDDING WASTED WIDE
THE WRETCHED LAND, TILL, IN THE PUBLIC WAY
PROMISCUOUS WHERE THE DEAD AND DYING LAY,
DOGS FED ON HUMAN BONES IN THE OPEN LIGHT OF DAY
Curse of Kehama.

BY A
GENTLEMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
FOR ASSISTING TO MAINTAIN IN PRISON
MR. PETER FINNERTY,
IMPRISONED FOR A LIBEL.

LONDON:
SOLD BY B. CROSBY AND CO.
AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1811.



Munday and Slatter, Printers, Oxford.

TO

HARRIET W—B—K,

THIS ESSAY

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.

Contents (not listed in original)

ERRATA.

Page 13, line 14, for course read source.
Page 15, line 10, for frightful read frigorific.



Munday and Slatter, Printers Oxford.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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