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A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

Name: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
ISBN: 148272068X

A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

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“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Man, Pain, Pleasure, Morality