Poet as legislator
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The theme of poet as legislator reached its peak in the Romantic era,[1] epitomised in Shelley's view of poets as the 'unacknowledged legislators of the world'.[2][3]
However the concept had a long prehistory in Western culture, with classical figures like Orpheus or Solon being appealed to as precedents for the poet's civilising role.[4]