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30 Sep, 2025
Joan of Arc & Pantisocracy
This ex-library photocopy of a Victorian print of Southey's 'romantic epic' was in good condition, with clean pages, and legible text. Southey wrote this largely during his undergarduate years and then with assistance from his new friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Joan is presented as a "Unitarian" inspired prophet; the war against England as a parallel to the war of Britain & the monarchies against the First French Republic. Several passages extol the egalitarian, proto-feminist, primitive communism of the Pantisocracy plan for a utopian community on the banks of the Susquehana River in Pennsylvania (See Coleridge's Lectures of 1795 for the argumentation of the politics of this "Necessitarian Optimism" a la Joseph Priestley). Good value for money.
20 Jan, 2023
Kermode at his best
This 1962 volume collects a range of Frank Kermode's long form reviews from the previous decade. Here we see Kermode's great range penetrating critical judgment in mid career. Many of these pieces were issued later as his Modern essays (Fontana paperback) but there are exceptions such as his wonderful essay on Evelyn Waugh written while Waugh was still alive. Kermode is never less than superb.
19 Sep, 2025
A great introduction to three negected eighteenth century poets of sensibility
Carcanet performed a real servce in making available S.H. Clark's well-edited selection from these three important late eighteenth century poets of sensibility. They were crucial in the formation of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey, laying the foundations for the flourishing of first generation Romanticism - in their loosening up of Augustan poetic protocols, their openness to indiviual feeling and their comtemplations of Imagination, Nature and Death. Akenside, Macpherson and Young each made a distinct contribution to the flourishing of a poetry of sensibility: Akenside with his extended philosphical reflections ('The Pleasures of the Imagination'); Macpherson in desseminating samples of primitive epic, his focus on traditional ballad and the entrancing figure of the (shamanic) tragic Bard Ossian; Young in his compulsive meditations on death, 'last things' and melancholia ('Night Thoughts' ). Clark provides an excellent introduction, notes and further reading directions. This work gives initial access to poetry not these days readily available in print. Great value for money.