A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
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Author(s)Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN / ASIN148272068X
ISBN-139781482720686
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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".