Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

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What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behavior? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives--perhaps sacred alternatives--to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean?

During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198754477

ISBN13:9780198754473

Release Date:June 2016

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:646 Pages

Weight:2.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

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