… them. As such they became part of literary games, as the Kit Cat Club was a literary as well as a political institution. Poetry written for the club’s toasting glasses by Lord Halifax and others appeared in print, paying homage to …
… of life more generally. 9 The Highland Society of Scotland claimed that it supported the preservation of the language, poetry, and music of the Highlands. In 1807, the Highland Society published the ‘original’ Gaelic text of the Ossian …
… British Museum Press, 1996), p. 261. Although some spectators described the performance as scandalous,Jeffrey N. Cox, Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt, and Their Circle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, …
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… cannot impart it; till 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 …
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