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Philosophy in English

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The Popularization of Wordsworth and Coleridge

I think there probably is in both Wordsworth and Coleridge, and even though in some of their poetry they try and present themselves as if they were uneducated yokels. And what's more, he had met this very awkward young man called William Haslett. Round Never Stowey, the three of them would walk around with Wordsworth andColeridge, declaring their poetry to the hills and to the sea. Hardie is another interesting example,. As a youth, he was completely obsessed with John Stuart Mill. Dickens is a novelist of ideas, more than he's sometimes given credit for. Whether that makes him a philosophical novelist, I'm not so sure. It does

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