The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining their work as authors, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture. They modelled their idea of authorship on the learned...
The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply ...
In this 1958 book Professor Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected subject, the philosophical aspects of research and discovery.
In this 1958 book Professor Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected subject, the philosophical aspects of research and discov...
