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The Mask of Anarchy

Written on the occasion of the Peterloo massacre at Manchester, which took place two hundred years ago.

By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Mask of Anarchy
A coloured engraving that depicts the Peterloo Massacre (military suppression of a demonstration in Manchester, England by cavalry charge on August 16, 1819 with loss of life) in Manchester, England. | Wikicommons/ Richard Carlile. Some rights reserved.
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