Brailsford traces the English response to the French Revolution from Richard Price’s famous sermon to Shelley’s Hellas. His chapters cover Thomas Paine, William Godwin and Political Justice, the reaction that followed, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Godwin’s strange relationship with his disciple and son-in-law Shelley.
A lucid short study of English radicalism and the Romantic poets, written for the Home University Library in 1913. Download the free EPUB.