Percy Bysshe Shelley "A Defence of Poetry" 1821
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imagination
the perception of value of the quantities of life: “reason is to the imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance”
Aeolian harp
man is the instrument over which imagination runs its fingers
Poets as legislators
neoplatonic – poets, because they see the order and complexity of the world, are the ones who fashion society, he sees the future in the present – they are prophets in that they care for the eternal
“A poet is a nightingale”
accompanied with pleasure, work magically on those who hear
“Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man”
it arrests and re-awakens man to those senses of divinity and loveliness he has experienced but quickly forgets
Poetry as ethical
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination”
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