And England is where the two brothers of England in 1819, Andrew and Dan Callaway, were born. (The band’s name is taken from the title of a Percy B. Shelley poem.) ...

The Percy Shelley sonnet "England in 1819" inspired the name for electro-wave group England in 1819. "Our expansive songs are reminiscent of a faraway place and time. It's not so much about the ...

When brothers Andrew and Dan Callaway put together a band with their father Liam, they chose to call it England in 1819.

It turns out that the band chose as its name the title of a famous sonnet by English romantic poet Percy Shelley, although the poem, not published until 1839, is political rather than romantic.