Published in 1824, these dialogues have the Poet Laureate meeting the ghost of Sir Thomas More in the Lake District and debating the progress of society. They range over druidical stones and pestilence, feudal slavery and pauperism, the decay of the feudal system, King Alfred, manufacturing and the state of the poor.
A key text of Romantic social criticism, famously attacked by Macaulay. Download the free EPUB.