War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
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About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a 18th-century English poet. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Imagination — The creative power of the mind and visionary thinking
- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war