Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Robert SoutheySir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
"...[A] calm exposition of [Southey's] mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library." -- DNB.
Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Southey RobertPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318757497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir Thomas More
Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290365499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, by Robert Southey
Author: Tom DuggettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351589040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
In 1829 Robert Southey published a book of his imaginary conversations with the original Utopian: Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. The product of almost two decades of social and political engagement, Colloquies is Southey’s most important late prose work, and a key text of late 'Lake School' Romanticism. It is Southey’s own Espriella’s Letters (1807) reimagined as a dialogue of tory and radical selves; Coleridge’s Church and State (1830) cast in historical dramatic form. Over a series of wide-ranging conversations between the Ghost of More and his own Spanish alter-ego, ‘Montesinos’, Southey develops a richly detailed panorama of British history since the 1530s– from the Reformation to Catholic Emancipation. Exploring issues of religious toleration, urban poverty, and constitutional reform, and mixing the genres of dialogue, commonplace book, and picturesque guide, the Colloquies became a source of challenge and inspiration for important Victorian writers including Macaulay, Ruskin, Pugin and Carlyle.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
'Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society' by Robert Southey is a historical book. The book reveals imaginary conversations between the author and the original Utopian, Sir Thomas More. Excerpt: A remarkable personage was at that time .dwelling in a monastery at Collenros, Servan was his name: his mother Alpia was daughter to a king of Arabia, and Obeth his father was king of the land of Canaan. This holy Philistine was a Saint of approved prowess and great good nature; had slain a dragon in single combat, turned water into wine, and once, when a hospitable poor man killed his only pig to entertain him and his religious companions, he supt upon the pork, and restored the pig to life next morning; a palingenesia this which the eternal and unfortunate boar Serimner undergoes every day in Valhalla, and which the Saints of St. Servan's age, particularly the Scotch, British and Irish Saints, frequently exhibited to the great profit and edification of their hosts.
Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher:
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Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Sir Thomas More
Author: Robert SoutheyPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"His Colloquies of Society (1829) is a calm exposition of his mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library" -ODNB.
Sir Thomas More Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
Author: Robert SoutheySir Thomas More
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ISBN: 9780461699272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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