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??These fallings were, so to speak, "revolutions" within the revolution the larger revolution of capitalist modernity from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. To Coleridge and other Romantic theorists, the emergence of the "professions," "literature," and the "press" mirrored the political revolutions of England (1642), the North American colonies (1775), and France (1789).ENG23g5.pdf

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Romantic Literary Criticism

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In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described "three silent revolutions in England: I When the Professions fell off from the Church, 2. When Literature fell off from the Professions. 3. When the Press fell off from Literature" (Table Talk 1:285).eu.docs.wps.com

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Romantic Literary Criticism

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In 1832, at the end of what is now called the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge described "three silent revolutions in England: I When the Professions fell off from the Church, 2. When Literature fell off from the Professions. 3. When the Press fell off from Literature" (Table Talk 1:285). These fallings were, so to speak, "revolutions" within the revolution the larger revolution of capitalist modernity from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. To Coleridge and other Romantic theorists, the emergence of the "professions," "literature," and the "press" mirrored the political revolutions of England (1642), the North American colonies (1775), and France (1789). In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" of 1800, William Wordsworth had similarly proposed a transformation of poetry that would correspond to the "revolutions not of literature alone, but likewise of society itself (121). Such thinking presupposed an already formed separation between the categories of politics and literature by the end of the eighteenth century. The Romantics were not the

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first to separate literature from politics, but they were the first to confront self-consciously the modern separation between these realms and to attempt to mediate it.

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Few assessments of European moderni critical or more sweeping than Friedrich Schiller's contrast between the "polypoid character of the Greek states, in which every individual enjoyed an independent existence but could,

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