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A Defense of Poetry

  A Defence of Poetry  is an essay by the  English  poet  Percy Bysshe Shelley , written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged le ...

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Songs and Sonnets

THE FLEA. MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is ; It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,  And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin ...

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Death's Duel

"This sermon was, by sacred authority, styled the author's own funeral sermon, most fitly, whether we respect the time or matter. It was preached not many days before his death, as if, having done this, there remained nothing for him to do but to d ...

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