Beschrijving

Volume V includes works from renowned British and Irish writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt. These authors were central figures in the Romantic movement, which emphasized emotion, nature, and individual experience. Coleridge’s philosophical writings, such as his Biographia Literaria, offer profound insights into literary theory and the nature of imagination. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater combines autobiography and philosophical reflection on addiction and the human psyche.Additionally, the volume includes works from political and social thinkers such as Edmund Burke, whose writings on the French Revolution had a lasting influence on conservative thought. Hazlitt’s essays, with their sharp critiques of society and politics, and Wordsworth’s reflections on the power of nature and memory, further illustrate the intellectual currents of the time.