A Defence Of Poetry And Other Essays: Includes On Love, On Life, On A Future State, On The Punishment Of Death, Speculations On Metaphysics And More (Mobi Classics)

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 LoveOn Life On a Future StateOn the Punishment of DeathSpeculations on MetaphysicsSpeculations on MoralsOn the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of PlatoA Defence of PoetryPercy Bysshe Shelley Biography