The 'Disposition to Combine': Thomas Campbell's The Pleasures of Hope, Edmund Burke, and the Power of the Poetic Imagination to Reconcile and Reform

In Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Burke argues that the goal of revolutionary movements ought to be 'to preserve and to reform': When the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady, persevering attention, various powers of comparison and combination, and the resources of an understanding fruitful in expedients, are to be exercised; they are to be exercised in a continued conflict with the combined force of opposite vices, with the obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

McKenna, Bernard

Đề mục:

British & Irish literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, ENCAP

Ngày xuất bản:

Summer 2008

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Nguồn gốc:

Romantic Textualities; Cardiff, Issue 18, Summer 2008, Pages 8-23

Liên kết:

ISSN 1748-0116

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The 'Disposition to Combine': Thomas Campbell's The Pleasures of Hope, Edmund Burke, and the Power of the Poetic Imagination to Reconcile and Reform

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