Ode to the West Wind

By Shelley, Percy, Bysshe

Book Id: WPLBN0002171267
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Reproduction Date: 10/29/2012

Title:	Ode to the West Wind
Author:	Shelley, Percy, Bysshe
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Philosophy, Lyric Poem
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Poetry
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Publisher:	Literalsystems


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bysshe Shelley, B. P., & Performer, A. M. (n.d.). Ode to the West Wind. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
This poem is a highly controlled text about the role of the poet as the agent of political and moral change. This was a subject Shelley wrote a great deal about, especially around 1819, with this strongest version of it articulated the last famous lines of his "Defence of Poetry": "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

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