TY - GEN digital ID - 131677322 TI - Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought : Forms of Freedom PY - 2017 SN - 9781137494887 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - poëzie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131677322 AB - This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Meredith, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Charles Swinburne responds to and participates in urgent philosophical, social and political debates about liberty and the rule of law. It provides an account of poetry’s intervention into four different sites where liberalism has a stake: the self, the university, married life and the nation state and it seeks to assert the peculiar capacity of poetry to articulate liberal concerns, proposing poetic language as a means of liberal enquiry. ER -