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Review: Shelley & revolutionary Ireland: Poet returned to rightful power and glory

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020804
Author:MARK BROWN

SHELLEY & REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND

Paul O'Brien

Redwords, GBP 11

WITH the possible exception of William Blake - whose revolutionary anthem 'Jerusalem' tumbles unknowingly out of the mouths of Eton schoolboys - few poets have been as shamefully served by history as Percy Bysshe Shelley. As Paul O'Brien remarks in his excellent book, the popular selection of his poetry has tended to romanticise and depoliticise Shelley, a fate he has shared with that other lover of liberty, Byron.

Latterly, however, there has been a concerted effort by numerous Shelleyans to re-establish the poet as a child of ...

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