A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ********** Table of Contents: On Love On Life On a Future State On the Punishment of Death Speculations on Metaphysics Speculations on Morals On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato A Defence of Poetry Percy B