ASSIGNMENT FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Reading: (1) Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defense of Poetry (CT,
516–529)
(2) John Stuart Mill, What Is Poetry? (CT, 551–556)
Question: According to Shelley, “A man cannot say, ‘I will compose poetry’” (CT, 527a). Why not? How does Shelley account for poetic compositions that appear to be products of deliberate labor?
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