Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

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.

• Author
• Christopher Hitchens

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 430

• Publisher
• Verso

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781859843833

• Characters
• Abraham Lincoln, Polonius, William of Baskerville, Sancho Panza, John Steinbeck

• Genres
• essays, politics, biography, history, criticism, literature, writing, philosophy

• Release date
• 2002