The Atlantic: Shelley Calls Poetry the Cure for Information Overload July 30, 2012: If you're feeling drowned in status updates, tweets and up-to-the-second news, Percy Bysshe Shelley has some advice for you: turn to poetry. A brief writeup on The Atlantic website presents Shelley's take on the massive volume of information available--in 1821. The poet writes: ...We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; [...] by Harriet Staff