A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

By Shelley, Percy Byssche

Book Id: WPLBN0000628777
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
Author:	Shelley, Percy Byssche
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: ON LOVE. What is love? Ask him who lives, what is life? ask him who adores, what is God? I know not the internal constitution of other men, nor even thine, whom I now address. I see that in some external attributes they resemble me, but when, misled by that appearance, I have thought to appeal to something in common, and unburthen my inmost soul to them, I have found my language misunderstood, like one in a distant and savage land. The more opportunities they have afforded me for experience, the wider has appeared the interval between us, and to a greater distance have the points of sympathy been withdrawn. With a spirit ill fitted to sustain such proof, trembling and feeble through its tenderness, I have everywhere sought sympathy and have found only repulse and disappointment.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, 1 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1 -- ON LOVE, 1 -- ON LIFE, 2 -- ON A FUTURE STATE, 4 -- ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH, 6 -- SPECULATIONS ON METAPHYSICS, 9 -- SPECULATIONS ON MORALS, 13 -- JUSTICE, 16 -- ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS, 18 -- ON THE SYMPOSIUM, OR Preface TO THE BANQUET OF PLATO, 22 -- A DEFENCE OF POETRY, 22