Governments, with the exception of the English, were absorbing a huge part of the ... The effort to control the economy in the interest of enhancing state power is the ... Cultural changes also worked to legitimate, even to inspire, the early modern ... Historians, in what is sometimes called “the new social history,” have paid
More flowers, trees, and emotion. In this second collection of poetry, Wordsworth develops the Romantic project of bringing man/woman back to nature, focusing on the individual, and making poetry accessible to all.
