George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language

by Chris Townsend

George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets now grouped under the label 'Romanticism' took up Berkeley's ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192846787
• ISBN13: 9780192846785
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"