Who referred to poets as "the unacknowledged legislators of the world" ?
Correct answer: D. Percy Shelley
- A. Lord Byron
- B. William Blake
- C. William Hazlitt
- D. Percy Shelley
Explanation
Percy Bysshe Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world” in his essay A Defence of Poetry, suggesting that poetry shapes society and moral ideas even without political office.
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