A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 12/08/2021

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According to Wikipedia: "A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840) [1839]. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

ISBN:
9781455334179
9781455334179
Category:
Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
12-08-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Seltzer Books
Percy Bysshe Shelley

A political firebrand and an unorthodox thinker during his lifetime, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the author of a large body of poetical works that left a deep mark in his own and later generations of writers.

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