Dec 26, 2009
Except for A Defence of Poetry (1840), Percy Bysshe Shelley’s essays are not classics of English prose, but they have influenced writers as diverse as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Bertrand Russell, and they are very useful as glosses on the poetry. “On Love,” for example, introduces...
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