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---# Percy Bysshe Shelley | A defence of Poetry | Poetry Foundation

**URL:** [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69388/a-defence-of-poetry](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69388/a-defence-of-poetry)

Percy Bysshe Shelley | A defence of Poetry | Poetry Foundation Percy Bysshe Shelley | A defence of Poetry | The Project Gutenberg "... At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature. The persons in whom this power resides may often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul."


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