The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 [of 2]

Chapter 37: AN ADDRESS, TO THE IRISH PEOPLE.

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A collected volume assembles early Gothic romances, political pamphlets, a refutation of deism, travel letters, essays on art and literature, critical notices, and various fragments and minor pieces. The fictional tales deliver dramatic scenes of revenge, abduction, and confinement, while the pamphlets set out radical proposals and a declaration of rights. The essays and letters offer close readings of sculpture and painting, personal reflections, and literary criticism. Alternating narrative, polemic, and aesthetic commentary, the material showcases a range of prose registers from vivid description to philosophical argument and intimate correspondence.

AN ADDRESS,
TO THE
IRISH PEOPLE.

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The lowest possible price is set on this publication, because it is the intention of the Author to awaken in the minds of the Irish poor, a knowledge of their real state, summarily pointing out the evils of that state, and suggesting rational means of remedy.—Catholic Emancipation, and a Repeal of the Union Act, (the latter, the most successful engine that England ever wielded over the misery of fallen Ireland,) being treated of in the following address, as grievances which unanimity and resolution may remove, and associations conducted with peaceable firmness, being earnestly recommended, as means for embodying that unanimity and firmness, which must finally be successful.

Dublin:

1812.

Price—5d.