ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In A Defence of Poetry, [Shelley] attempts to prove that poets are philosophers; that they are the creators and protectors of moral and civil laws; and that if it were not for poets, scientists could not have developed either their theories or their inventions. Poets introduce and maintain morality.

Detailed explanation-2: -He writes: Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his great essay “A Defense of Poetry, ” Shelley gives us his famous definition of the poet: to be a poet is to represent a spirit of change, both within the world of letters and beyond it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which central idea about poets is expressed in this excerpt? Poets are members of an elite organization designed to help those who have lost all sense of hope. Poets are capable of effectively capturing and preserving moments of beauty and pleasure in life.