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Literature

The Meaning and Origin of ‘Poets Are the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ is one of the best-known and most frequently quoted lines from the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), but, like John Donne’s ‘no man is an island’, it doesn’t come from a poem but from a […]