A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays : Includes On Love, On Life, On a Future State, On the Punishment of Death, Speculations on Metaphysics and more.

A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Table of Contents:

On Love
On Life
On a Future State
On the Punishment of Death
Speculations on Metaphysics
Speculations on Morals
On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato
A Defence of Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography