19 NOVEMBER 2005, Page 22

Shelley said it

From Christopher Lush

Sir: Mark Steyn (‘It’s the demography, stupid’, 12 November) attributes the quotation ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ to Anatole France (1844–1924). In fact, the lines were written by Shelley (1792–1822) in A Defence of Poetry (1821).

Christopher Lush London SW3