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A Defense of Poetry, Paperback / softback Book

A Defense of Poetry Paperback / softback

Edited by Albert S. Cook

Paperback / softback

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The book presents an edition of A Defence of Poetry, an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840.

It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

Through the essay, Shelley sought to show that poets make morality and established the legal norms in a civil society thus creating the groundwork for the other branches in a community.

Shelley argued that the invention of language reveals a human impulse to reproduce the rhythmic and ordered, so that harmony and unity are delighted in wherever they are found and incorporated, instinctively, into creative activities.

This edition contains analysis of the work, articles on Shelley's Style, compares the works of Shelley with those of Sidney.

It would be highly beneficial for the students of English literature.

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