Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelleys's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature. Instead, Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state are agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created space for a true moral argument.
A great collection of essays and he doesn't even go full 'Hitch' on Tom Clancy. My only problem reading Hitchens is that I don't have the vocabulary to read him without constantly referring to a dictionary, I learn but taking a big Websters to bed gets complaints from the other occupant
Any time reading Hitchens is time well spent, get amongst it.
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