Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth
by
Susan Manly
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s shows for the first time how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas of a 'revolutionary' poetry, were impelled - even 'invented' - by the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. For too long the revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experiments...