Category Archives: Poetry

Protest, Poetry & Song

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Suzanne Burdon

As Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel Prize, (though not yet given his Nobel performance) I was reminded of the essay In Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, in which he claimed that: “poets are the unacknowledged legislators … Continue reading →

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