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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… being the subject of a Treason Trial in 1794, and for his involvement in radical groups such as the London Corresponding Society in which he helped to forge a new model of political sociability. His interest in finding the best means to … of identity. As his second wife, Cecile Thelwall wrote in her 1837 biography: ‘ the prospect of mingling in circles of society, more correspondent to his taste and turn of mind than those to which had hitherto been confined, had altogether formed an association intoxicating’ (Thelwall 18). It was this love of ‘circles of society’ in which his own views might be reflected and furthered that defined much of his career in the 1780s and 1790s. …
Debate | Eloquence | French Revolution | Poetry | Public sphere
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Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… third edition (1628) Abstract While melancholy was essentially a solitary affliction, one that traditionally shunned society and regarded its activities as sham and a waste of time, or else sought out seclusion in order to indulge in … an essay in the London Magazine in 1780, ‘All that is illustrious in publick life, all that is amiable and endearing in society, all that is elegant in science and in arts, affects him just with the same indifference, and even contempt, as … the melancholy man removes himself increasingly from company, friends and family, from all that makes living in a society worthwhile, and sooner or later might end up paying the ultimate price. As the eighteenth-century physician …
Community | Depression | Poetry | Salvation | Solitude
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
Art | Collecting | Commerce | Conversation | Correspondence | Exhibitions | Friendship | Patronage | Poetry | Salons
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… the reality of Pope’s public profile. He was often caricatured as a monstrous creature, fundamentally estranged from the society he claimed to represent. And notwithstanding his various attempts to cast judgement on the venality and vulgarity … Elsewhere in their Verses Address’d to the Imitator (1733), he is presented as a vile, subhuman fiend, unfit for polite society and likewise unfit to emulate Horace’s poetic authority: Horace can laugh, is delicate, is clear; You, only …
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