A Defence of Poetry - From Editorial Introductions To "A Defence of Poetry"

From Editorial Introductions To "A Defence of Poetry"

Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, eds. Gateway to the Great Books Volume 5, Critical Essays. Toronto: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1963, p.214. (No ISBN.)
In A Defence of Poetry, attempts to prove that poets are philosophers; that they are the creators and protectors of moral and civil laws; and that if it were not for poets, scientists could not have developed either their theories or their inventions.
Perkins, David, ed. English Romantic Writers, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995, p.1131. ISBN 0-15-501688-1.
...Shelley was mainly concerned to explain the moral (and thus the social) function of poetry. In doing so, he produced one of the most penetrating general discussions on poetry that we have.

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