Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
A Defense of Poetry · 1822
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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.
Original citation
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Vol. 1. London: Edward Moxon, 1840.
