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boni
A really tiny, but beautiful, compelling, profound and rich essay about poetry. I read it the first time ages ago and must say I enjoyed it, even more, this second time.It shows clearly Shelley's vision of poetry and art, it's profound humanism, radicalism, and kindness.
Is it me or is this completely unconvincing???!Shelley extends the definition of poetry in order to include all arts(even music, painting etc). This is no poetry, this is arts in general!He then distincts poetry and believes it superior to all other arts and sciences and the major(only?) force to influence societies...how can this be? A musician or a painter need not read a single verse to be great in their art and influence society with their works, let alone a scientist.He also considers peopl...
Despite what I'm about to say, I still think Percy Bysshe's name is ridiculous and that he was a total prat. M.W.G. Shelley remains the far more compelling 19th-century Shelley. Still, with every reading of this Defence, I become more and more convinced of its unique greatness. This is philosophically and theoretically really compelling, not a mere polemic or a poorly reasoned reaction to attacks on poetry. When I first read it as an undergrad, years ago, the thing came across as just a cute, im...
“La poesia solleva il velo dalla nascosta bellezza del mondo”In Difesa della Poesia è un elogio alla poesia in ogni sua forma. “Anche una parola sola potrebbe essere una scintilla di pensiero inestinguibile” È un elogio alla bellezza, a quella bellezza che salverà il mondo. È un saggio che ci ricorda che la poesia è utile e lo è soprattutto in epoche in cui il nostro essere è svuotato e inaridito dalla realtà. Questo saggio contiene messaggi validi ancora oggi, soprattutto oggi, quando sembriamo...
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.""Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
solid proof that poets and poetry is the crux of civilisation, just as relevant to a reader in 2021 as in 1840
Reading this essay has made me gain an utterly different perspective of poetry. I have always thought about poetry as something you read for delight, and nothing more. But when reading Shelly’s views and ideas about poetry I could see how poetry is present in every aspect of life. How it’s related to the past the present and the future, how it affects our thinking and perception of the world, and inspires humans in different fields.“What would have been the moral condition of the world if neithe...
"... Shelley não deixa de exprimir um conceito sociológico acerca da Poesia, na medida em que a considera espelho da Sociedade que lhe é contemporânea, dela dando uma completa imagem em que todos os traços - culturais, éticos, religiosos e outros - se acham bem vincados."
Ίσως να αφορά περισσότερο τους επίδοξους ποιητές...
This is a short but very rich essay on poetry-- invigorating, radical, and surprising. “The parts of a composition may be poetical, without the composition as a whole being a poem. A single sentence may be considered as a whole though it be found in the midst of a series of unassimilated portions; a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought. And thus all the great historians, Herodotus, Plutarch, Livy, were poets, and although the plan of these writers, especially that of Livy,...
tears
Una narración de hechos particulares es un espejo que oscurece y contorsiona lo que habría podido ser bello: la poesía es un espejo que embellece lo que está deformado. Este ensayo fue entretenido y hermosísimo. Por ahí no me importaba tanto lo que estaba leyendo, pero sí la forma en la que estaba escrito. Y confirmo que qué lindo es leer sobre poesía cuando quien escribe siente verdadera pasión por ella.
P. B. Shelly in his A Defence of Poetry replies to the attack made by his contemporary Thomas Love Peacock. Here he talks about the distinction between reason and imagination and goes on to defend poetry by saying "A Poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds" and also that "...Poetry acts in another and diviner manner. It awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought....
"O futuro está contido no presente, como a planta na semente"
Another one for my English seminar; not. a. fan. Had to force myself through it and still wasn't really convinced by most of it.
