“The familiar objects of the world are changed by the presence of an imagination.”

Emphasising the transformative effect of imaginative perception on everyday reality. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Beauty
• Imagination
• Perception

“The principle of equality is the only principle which can save mankind from the calamities which are impending over them.”

Expressing Shelley's conviction that equality was essential to humanity's future. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Equality
• Future
• Humanity

“The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, is a principal source of moral improvement.”

Linking intellectual discovery with humanity's moral development. · Essay, A Defence of Poetry

• Growth
• Knowledge
• Science