What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?
Correct answer: C. the Peterloo Massacre
- A. the organization of a working class men's choral group in Southern England
- B. the Battle of Waterloo
- C. the Peterloo Massacre
- D. the storming of the Bastille
Explanation
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819, when cavalry attacked a reform meeting in Manchester, inspired Shelley's political poems including England in 1819. The poems express outrage at governmental repression and social injustice.
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