John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… into unity what might otherwise be a disaggregated set of individuals and to animate the collective with a vital spark. The ‘people’ however must first be organized, as he wrote in Natural and Constitutional Right : If the people are … successful that he repeated the lecture and wrote more, which he delivered at various venues, occasionally taking out newspaper advertisements to increase his audience. 6 6 . See for example Morning Post, 12 February 1794. During early 1794 … eventually settled at Llyswen on the Banks of the Wye. Here he attempted to live as a farmer, writing poetry in his spare time, and in 1801 published his Poems Written Chiefly in Retirement. 7 . Thelwall’s relationship with Wordsworth …
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