Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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In 1829 Robert Southey published a book of his imaginary conversations with the original 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 al...
Chapters (9)
- COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY.
- INTRODUCTION.
- COLLOQUY I.—THE INTRODUCTION.
- COLLOQUY II.—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD.
- COLLOQUY III.—THE DRUIDICAL STONES.—VISITATIONS OF PESTILENCE.
- COLLOQUY IV.—FEUDAL SLAVERY.—GROWTH OF PAUPERISM.
- COLLOQUY V.—DECAY OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM.—EDWARD VI.—ALFRED.
- COLLOQUY XIV.—THE LIBRARY.
- COLLOQUY XV.—THE CONCLUSION.
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