About “A Defence of Poetry”
"A Defence of Poetry" is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in February and March 1821, which he never completed. It was published in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, a collection of his works. The essay first appeared in the United States in 1891, published by Ginn and Company in Boston. The text ends with Shelley's well-known statement that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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