Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… these changes manifested most strongly, and where they were most directly reflected upon by contemporaries. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Aristocracy Art Commerce Exhibitions Literature Patronage … Harley and St. John acting as patrons. 5 With the Hanoverian king, who was above the partisan interest of party politics, but who was also largely uninterested in matters of art, the aristocratic system of patronage lost official … I am known, and do not want it. 9 9 . Quoted in Tim Fulford, Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 77. For Johnson, the booksellers …
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