Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, EdgeworthSusan Manly shows how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas of a 'revolutionary' poetry, were impelled - even 'invented' - by the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke. |
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