Romantic Anger and Byron's Curse The men who grow angry with corruption, and impatient at injustice, and through those sentiments favour the abettor of revolution, have an obvious apology to palliate their error; theirs is the excess of a virtuous feeling. At the same time, however amiable may be the source of their error, the error itself is probably fraught with consequences pernicious to mankind. (Godwin, "On Revolutions," Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793) And the just …
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…of the mob rather than the monarch, the logic of outrage prevails. Burke's rhetoric obliquely approves the petition for redress of grievances, and the violent opposition to tyranny when that fails: that is, the stages of political anger that amount to revolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** (Godwin, "On Revolutions," Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793) (Blake, "The Argument," The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1789) (The Poems, 2: 739-40) (The Poems, 2: 881) (1805 Prelude, Book 10, lines 80-82) (Young 28) (Scott, Life of Buonaparte, 1: 4) (Reflections 376)