‘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 work of prose. But what Shelley […]

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