Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defence of Poetry | LITERATURE ANALYSIS | Imagination, Sympathy, & Moral Good

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY | ROMANTICISM LITERATURE | How does Percy Bysshe Shelley defend poetry? Analysis & close reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry (written 1821), examining how Shelley presents sympathy & imagination as agents of moral good (the "great instrument of moral good is the imagination"). I briefly introduce long-18th-century definitions of sympathy (Samuel Johnson) & ideas of the moral philosophy of sympathy & imagination (David Hume & Adam Smith).

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PASSAGES
The imagination is enlarged by a sympathy with pains and passions so mighty, that they distend in their conception the capacity of that by which they are conceived
The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action or person, not our own
A man to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination
Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb

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