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New Defences of Poetry

New Defences of Poetry

Celebrating the Bicentennial of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'A Defence of Poetry'

  • About the Project
  • Editor’s Introduction
  • Essays
  • A Defence of Poetry
  • The Four Ages of Poetry
  • About the Editor
  • Acknowledgements
  • Responses to the New Defences
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Words, Listening

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Philip Gross

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A Note on Poetry: A Contention, an Ideal, a Credo

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Gregory Leadbetter

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Defending the Dawn Chorus

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Linda France

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‘A Wing-Stroke of the Will’

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Vidyan Ravinthiran

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How Heavy’s the Albatross?

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Sam Quill

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The Defence of Poetry: Ownership and the Co-operating Mind

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Olivia McCannon

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Someone

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Tara Bergin

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A Defence of Ekphrasis

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Antony Huen

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The Ephemeral

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

W.N. Herbert

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Fur and Claws: A Defence of True Poetry

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Stephen Wade

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The Woman Who Did Not Go Mad Because of Poetry

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Jane Burn

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‘The Mirrors of the Gigantic Shadows which Futurity Casts upon the Present’

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Angi Holden

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The Isolated Pavilion

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Julie Hogg

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Shifting an Imaginary: Poetics in Anticipation

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Robert Sheppard

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Thirteen Thoughts on Poetry

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Ciarán O’Rourke

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The New Excellent

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Daljit Nagra

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Warblers and World-smiths: Notes Towards a Defence of Poetry

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Daniel Gustafsson

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Poetry: A Defence of the Earth

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Diane Pacitti

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Defending Ecopoetry: A Dance with Shelley

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Helen Moore

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Bringing Back the Common-Land

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Jonathan Davidson

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Holding The High Ground: Shelley’s Defence of Poetry in 2021

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Ian Parks

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Our Own Worst Enemies?

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Jeremy Wikeley

ReadOur Own Worst Enemies?

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Defending the Indefensible?

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

William Alderson

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‘Infinitesimal Deflections’

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Toby Martinez

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On Poetry As Its Own Defence

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Polly Atkin

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A Defence of the Dispensable

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Michael Brown

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A New Defence of Poetry

Posted on July 16, 2021July 19, 2021 admin

Jeff Kemp

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Poetry as the Defender of Besieged Human Dignity

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Min-Hua Wu

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Responsibility

Posted on July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 admin

Sean O’Brien

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On Gods, Human Rights, and the Poet

Posted on July 1, 2021July 16, 2021 admin

Mona Arshi

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Radically Necessary Heaney

Posted on July 1, 2021 admin

Leontia Flynn

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