[DOWNLOAD] "Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley & Keats" by Barnette Miller ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley & Keats
- Author : Barnette Miller
- Release Date : January 31, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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Since contemporary social conditions played an important part in the relations of Leigh Hunt with Byron, Shelley, and Keats, a brief survey of the period in question is necessary to an understanding of the forces at play on their intellect and conduct. The English mind had been admirably prepared for the principles of the French Revolution by the progressive tendency since the Revolution of 1688. The new order promised by France was acclaimed in England as one destined to right the wrongs of humanity; through unending progress mankind was to attain unlimited perfection. Upon such a prospect both parties were agreed, and the warnings of Burke were vain when Pitt, rationalizing, led the Tories, and Fox, rhapsodizing, led the Whigs. In 1793, Godwin’s Political Justice, with its anarchistic doctrines of individual perfectibility and of individual self-reliance, rallied more recruits to the standard of liberty, though his theories of community of property and annulment of the marriage bond were somewhat charily received. The early writings of Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge were colored with enthusiasm for the new movement.