Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to WordsworthCambridge University Press, 1996 M06 28 - 251 pages Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, revealing tensions that arose as writers struggled for authority over the public sphere and sought to redefine the nature of that authority. In his investigation of poetry and political and aesthetic writing, Dr Fulford throws light on the legacy of Commonwealth and Country-party ideas of liberty. Also discussed are the significance of the Miltonic sublime, the politics of the picturesque and the post-colonial encounter of the Scottish tour. Dr Fulford goes on to show how the early radicalism and later conservatism of Wordsworth and Coleridge were shaped, in part, by eighteenth-century literary political and literary authorities. His study offers an understanding of literary and political influence that cuts across conventional periodization, finding new links between the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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aesthetic appearance argued arguments attack authority beautiful Borrowdale Boswell Britain Capability Brown challenge Charles James Fox Chesterfield claim Coleridge Coleridge's conflicts corruption Cowper critical culture Dennis discourse disinterested disorder economic eighteenth-century English gentleman gentlemanly taste gentry Gilpin Grasmere Harrington Highland Home at Grasmere Humphry Repton ideal ideology imagination independence J.G.A. Pocock Jacobite labour land landowners landscape gardening landscape poetry landscape-description language legitimacy liberty lines literary London Lyrical Ballads master Milton moral narrative nation nature nobility Ossian Paradise Lost paternalism Patriot patron picturesque poem poet poetic poor Price propriety prose quoted radical reader readership representation rhetorical Richard Payne Knight rural Samuel Johnson scene Scotland Scottish Shakespeare society speak style sublime subordination sympathy tensions Thomson threatened Tory tour traditional trees Uvedale Price verse vision voice vulnerability Walpole Whig whilst wildness William William Cowper William Gilpin words Wordsworth writing Yew-Trees
References to this book
Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700-1830 Rachel Crawford No preview available - 2002 |