A Defence of Poetry
Essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the work by Sir Philip Sidney, see An Apology for 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.[1] The text was published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments.[2] Its final sentence expresses Shelley's famous proposition that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."