Defence Of Poetry An Essay

A brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that displays Shelley's intellect and imagination. The book asserts the ''ideal nature and essential value'' of poetry and is Shelley's most important prose work. His arguments are vividly and convincingly presented.

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays is a book by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It consists of extensive romantic lyricism coupled with some picturesque essays by the author.

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Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change; it subdues to union under its light yoke all irreconcilable things. It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes.