Percy Bysshe Shelley Frets About Information Overload ... in 1821
That feeling of flooding from facts? It’s centuries old.
In 1821, —poet, dramatist, novelist, activist, critic—wrote a paragraph that would provide the introduction to 1840’s . That essay, which would be published posthumously and which was not so much a defense of poetry as an unabashed celebration of it, found the lyricist creating a case for lyric as political art. It would go on to make the famous declaration that “poets are the
