Politics, Petitions, and Violence in Shelley’s <i>Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson</i>

Borushko, Matthew C.

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“…Tamara Ageeva [1] holds that -Percy Shelley is so underrated that it hurts. Shelley was the first to encourage peaceful protests in overthrowing tyrannical governments and this had inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and others.‖ [4] She adds that Shelley's legacy -is being the first to pioneer peaceful protests that toppled re-gimes‖. It so hurts because it is difficult to comprehend how a man whose singular poem, -The Masque of Anarchy‖ has been the source of peaceful political revolutions that have toppled undemocratic regimes, has not been credited with such milestone political philosophy.…”

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“…An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, -Princes, the dregs of their full race, who flow Through public scorn, -mud from a muddy spring, -Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling (line [1][2][3][4][5]. This category of persons in the theory of Marx constitutes the ruling class.…”

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“…He ascertains that -It is known that Gandhi would often quote various passages from the poem to vast audiences during the campaign for India's independence‖ [2]. Mathew C Borushko [4] holds that Shelley's -The Mask of Anarchy‖ is associated with nonviolence or one of its approximate cognates -Passive resistance‖ or -civil disobedience‖. Quoting from Timothy Morton [14], Borushko affirms that -The Mask‖ played -a pivotal role in inspiring Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi's nonviolent work in South Africa as well as the student-led protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989‖.…”

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“…Dr Lavindra Kumar [11] observes that from -the descent of man on Earth, Ahimsa came with him as a natural tendency of his. For Ahimsa, the word in English is nonviolence coined by Mahatma Gandhi‖ [3] Gandhi [6] himself stresses that -Nonviolence is a term I had to coin in order to bring out the root meaning of Ahimsa…it is soul force or the power of Godhead with us‖ [4].…”

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Romanticism and Nonviolence: Percy Bysshe Shelley Exhumed

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This paper posits that in his prose and poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley (an English poet of the Romantic period) articulates both the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence as a response to oppression, repression and marginalisation. It also contends that although his theory significantly impacted the formation of the philosophies and socio-political campaigns of later nonviolence activists, especially the Indian Civil Rights Activist Mahatma Gandhi, Shelley has not been sufficiently credited for the ground-breaking political philosophy of nonviolence. This article thus explores Shelley’s philosophy of nonviolence in his poetry, prose, dramas and pamphlets. It compares the nonviolence philosophies of Gandhi and Shelley and brings out Shelley’s unquestionable influence on Mahatma Gandhi. The article raises questions about why Shelley was not credited with the philosophy of nonviolence and suggests possible reasons for this apparent near lack of global consideration for the English Romantic poet despite his pioneering the philosophy. Having proceeded thus and upon thorough academic investigation, the article irresistibly concludes that contrary to popular socio-political opinion, Percy Bysshe Shelley is the unrivalled father of nonviolence as an ethical and pragmatic philosophy for socio-political mutation. By this study, Shelley is given his rightful position in matters of nonviolence and thus exhumed as a poet-philosopher whose philosophy has outlived his existence and practised to date by activists to press for reform.

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