A Philosophical View of Reform
work by Shelley
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"A Philosophical View of Reform" is an incomplete prose work by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1819. It advocates for moderate reforms to prevent violent revolution and tyranny. Shelley, a radical English Romantic poet, believed poets were "the unacknowledged legislators of the world". The work, too radical for publication in his lifetime, argues for societal change through reasoned reform rather than upheaval.12
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