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A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 74 pages

A collection of essays by Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The central piece considers the nature and value of poetry, while other essays explore themes such as virtue and love. Worth listening for its lyrical reflections on art, morality, and imagination.

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A DEFENCE OF POETRY AND OTHER
ESSAYS
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE
CHAPTER II.
ON LOVE
What is love? Ask him who lives, what is life? ask him
who adores, what is God?
I know not the internal constitution of other men, nor
even thine, whom I now address. I see that in some
external attributes they resemble me, but when, misled by

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Contents

  1. A DEFENCE OF POETRY AND OTHER ESSAYS
  2. ON LOVE
  3. ON A FUTURE STATE
  4. ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH
  5. SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS
  6. SPECULATIONS ON MORALS
  7. CHAPTER I ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE
  8. CHAPTER II
  9. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS
  10. ON THE SYMPOSIUM, OR PREFACE TO THE BANQUET OF PLATO
  11. A DEFENCE OF POETRY
  12. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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