The complete online text of A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lasting: the restless...

The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lasting: the restless...

Percy Shelley was a poet, literary theorist, translator, political thinker, pamphleteer, and social activist. A voluminous reader and bold experimenter, he is worth consulting on any of the multifarious topics he addressed, from vegetarianism to war. He...

TORONTO -- The relationship between poetry and politics is a vexed one in western culture, and discussion of the two usually centres on whether or not politics is a "suitable" subject for poetic treatment. Poems with explicitly political content are often criticized as...

Contemporary Mexican literature read and discussed abroad seems, as if by some mysterious force, reduced to two names: Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. Many others are translated-Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Angeles Mastretta and Jose Emilio Pacheco, for example-but the attention given them...