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The Devil's Walk
''The Devil's Walk: A Ballad'' was a major poetical work published as a broadside by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812.〔MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 1872〕 The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines.〔Forman, Harry Buxton, 1877, p. 371〕 The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government.〔 The poem was modelled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.〔Chewning, Harris, 1955, pp. 81–96〕 The work is important in Shelley's development and evolution of writings that castigate and criticise the British government to achieve political and economic reform.〔
==Background==
The poem was written in 1812 by Shelley to protest the actions of the British government and harsh economic conditions in the country at the time. The poem emerged after the food riots in Devon where Shelley lived at that time. Prices for grain were at their highest level in 1812, there were shortages of food, and prices were inflated.〔Gilmour, Ian. ''The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time''. NY: Carrol and Graf, 2002, pp. 334–336.〕 Shelley attacked "a brainless King" and the "princely paunch" and "each brawny haunch" of the Prince Regent.〔Gilmour, Ian. pp. 334–336.〕 The members of both houses of Parliament and the Church were also castigated.〔 Political leaders and the wealthy were also attacked. The British war in Spain was similarly criticised.
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