Out of Bounds
Ian Gilmour: Why Wordsworth sold a lot less than Byron, 20 January 2005
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
by William St Clair.
Cambridge, 765 pp., £90, July 2004,9780521810067 Show More
by William St Clair.
Cambridge, 765 pp., £90, July 2004,
“... in determining the cultural consciousness of 18th-century society will have obvious echoes of Karl Marx. But, just as Popper pointed out that while Beethoven was affected by such social developments as the enlargement of the orchestra, no theory of metaphysical or materialist determinism could explain a single bar of his music, St Clair is clear that ... ”
