Studies the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. Discusses nineteenth-century poets as readers of philosophy and explore the peculiar capacity of poetry to act as a medium for liberal thought and expression Offers an original and significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies in its in-depth study of liberalism's forming influence on a range of poets from the Romantic period to the last decades of the century

Autorentext
Anna Barton is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Inhalt

1. Locke in Pentameters.- 2. The Liberal Self: Wordsworth and Barrett Browning.- 3. Liberal Education: Wordsworth, Clough, Tennyson and Arnold.- 4. Liberalism in Love: Barrett Browning, Browning and Meredith.- 5. Liberal Republicanism: Clough, Barrett Browning and Swinburne.- 6. Conclusion.