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A Defence of Poetry
"A Defence of Poetry" is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in February and March 1821 that the poet put aside and never completed. In 1840, The text was published posthumously in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Its final sentence expresses Shelley's famous proposition that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Shelley wrote the essay in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article "The Four Ages of Poetry", which had been published in 1820. Shelley wrote to the publishers Charles and James Ollier (who were also his own publishers):
To Peacock, Shelley wrote:
The text we know as A Defence of Poetry was eventually published eighteen years after Shelley's death, after being subjected to some editing by John Hunt and Shelley's wife Mary Shelley, in her Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments.
Shelley's aim was to show that poets establish morality and inspire the legal norms in a civil society, thus creating a foundation for the other institutions of a community.
Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler wrote
David Perkins wrote:
Andrew Sanders wrote:
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A Defence of Poetry
"A Defence of Poetry" is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in February and March 1821 that the poet put aside and never completed. In 1840, The text was published posthumously in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Its final sentence expresses Shelley's famous proposition that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Shelley wrote the essay in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock's article "The Four Ages of Poetry", which had been published in 1820. Shelley wrote to the publishers Charles and James Ollier (who were also his own publishers):
To Peacock, Shelley wrote:
The text we know as A Defence of Poetry was eventually published eighteen years after Shelley's death, after being subjected to some editing by John Hunt and Shelley's wife Mary Shelley, in her Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments.
Shelley's aim was to show that poets establish morality and inspire the legal norms in a civil society, thus creating a foundation for the other institutions of a community.
Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler wrote
David Perkins wrote:
Andrew Sanders wrote:
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