Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Defense of Poetry

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Topic

Poetry Politics is downstream of culture

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

A Defense of Poetry

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Vol. 1. London: Edward Moxon, 1840.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

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Language
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Time
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Citation

Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.