Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
430 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2000
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ISBN: 9781859843833
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publication date: 1 January 2002
Description
A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz’s ‘bloody crossroads’. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
