Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
LC Class
PR478.P64 H58 2000

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere is a collection of essays

New Left Books imprint, Verso.[2]

Synopsis

Described as 'A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the

, in which Hitchens attempts to 'dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature'.

Reception

In 2016, James Ley of The Sydney Morning Herald listed Unacknowledged Legislation among the books from Hitchens that "[represent] the best of his work as a journalist, literary critic and cultural commentator."[4]

See also

The arts and politics

References