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Romantic atheism

By Martin Priestman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780521026857, 0521026857
Open Library ID
OL7714349M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3728865 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Edition
1
Pages
325\325
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, from the 1780s onward. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, as well as a host of less canonical poet-intellectuals and controversialists of the time. Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lent it a protean energy belied by the more recent conception of "loss of faith."

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