Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The atheism debate, 1780-1800 2. Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin 3. And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s 4. The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s 5. Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s 6. Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800-30 7. Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s Conclusion Glossary of theological and other terms Notes Bibliography Index.

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Martin Priestman (1999). Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830.

@article{martin1999romantic,
  title  = {Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830},
  author = {Priestman, Martin},
  year   = {1999}
}