Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
Summary
Publisher description: E.P. Thompson traces the intellectual influences and societal pressures that gave rise to the English Romantic movement. Thompson examines the interaction between politics and literature at the beginning of the modern age, focusing in on the turbulent 1790s -- the time of the French and American revolutions -- through the celebrated writings of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Provenance
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus.