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Protest songs, poetry, and political influence

Long ago, I was seduced by Shelley’s Defense of Poetry, which concluded with a bold claim: “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” At some point, I became skeptical of that notion, and came to think that poets were … Continue reading

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