Apr 16, 2020
TIL that Percy Bysshe Shelley distributed some of his political pamphlets by rowing out into the Bristol Channel and launching them in bottles or home-made boats. Some were launched “more dramatically” from a hilltop at dusk in a fire balloon.
#10/10 for style#percy Bysshe shelley#bring that back#2024 election all party political pamphlets must be launched as letters in a bottle#which probably means riverside communities get fed up with having to fish endless#poorly proofread lib dem leaflets out of the river#AHEM#NOT THAT I AM BITTER#source: young Bysshe by Claire tomalin#it's a pocket penguin#so the title of the Tomalin biography prob different from the excerpt available through pocket penguin#regency memes#regency period#ish#romanticism#romanticism memes#shelley memes