A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 100 pages of information about A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays.

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 100 pages of information about A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays.
burns within their words.  They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age.  Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves.  Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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