<P> `` A Defence of Poetry '' is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays , Letters from Abroad , Translations and Fragments by Edward Moxon in London . It contains Shelley 's famous claim that `` poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world '' . </P>
<P> `` A Defence of Poetry '' is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays , Letters from Abroad , Translations and Fragments by Edward Moxon in London . It contains Shelley 's famous claim that `` poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world '' . </P>
who described poets as the unacknowledged legislators of mankind
who described poets as the unacknowledged legislators of mankind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley