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THE POETIC ENLIGHTENMENT: POETRY AND HUMAN SCIENCE, 1650–1820 The Enlightenment World Series Editor: Michael T. Davis Series Co-Editors: Jack Fruchtman, Jr Iain McCalman Jon Mee Paul Pickering Lisa Rosner Advisory Editor: Hideo Tanaka Titles in this Series 1 Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment David Worrall 2 Th e Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776–1832 Michael Scrivener 3 Writing the Empire: Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism Carol Bolton 4 Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds) 5 Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism Jacqueline Labbe (ed.) 6 Th e Scottish People and the French Revolution Bob Harris 7 Th e English Deists: Studies in Early Enlightenment Wayne Hudson 8 Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle (eds) 9 Rhyming Reason: Th e Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists Michelle Faubert 10 Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835 Tristanne Connolly and Steve Clark (eds) 11 John Th elwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon Steve Poole (ed.) 12 Th e Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century Jonathan Lamb 13 Enlightenment and Modernity: Th e English Deists and Reform Wayne Hudson 14 William Wickham, Master Spy: Th e Secret War against the French Revolution Michael Durey 15 Th e Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx William Christie 16 Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689–1755 Ursula Haskins Gonthier 17 Th e Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820 Michael R. Lynn 18 Th e Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830 Kathryn Chittick 19 Romantic Localities: Europe Writes Place Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe (eds) 20 William Godwin and the Th eatre David O’Shaughnessy 21 Th e Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland Gordon Pentland 22 Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution Russell M. Lawson 23 Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment Ariyuki Kondo 24 Sociability and Cosmospolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment Scott Breuninger and David Burrow (eds) 25 Dialogue, Didacticism and the Genres of Dispute: Literary Dialogues in the Age of Revolution Adrian J. Wallbank Forthcoming Titles British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities Emma Macleod Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys and Shino Konishi (eds) www.pickeringchatto.com/enlightenmentworld THE POETIC ENLIGHTENMENT: POETRY AND HUMAN SCIENCE, 1650–1820 edited by Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson PICKERING & CHATTO 2013 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfi eld, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd 2013 © Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson 2013 To the best of the Publisher’s knowledge every eff ort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions. british library cataloguing in publication data Th e poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650–1820. – (Th e Enlightenment world) 1. Literature and science–Great Britain–History–18th century. 2. Poetry, Modern–18th century–History and criticism. 3. Poetry–Social aspects–Great Britain–History–18th century. 4. Enlightenment--Great Britain. 5. Great Britain –Intellectual life–18th century. I. Series II. Jones, Tom, 1975– editor of compilation. III. Boyson, Rowan editor of compilation. 809.1’033-dc23 ISBN-13: 9781848934047 e: 9781781440360 ∞ Th is publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by the MPG Printgroup CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix List of Contributors xi General Introduction – Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson 1 I Poetic Knowledge and the Knowledge of Poetry 1 Introduction – Avi Lifshitz 11 2 Samuel Johnson and the Science of Literary Criticism – Nicholas Hudson 15 3 Prosody, Knowledge and Humanity in Enlightenment Language Science – Tom Jones 29 4 Ferguson’s School for Literature – Stefan Uhlig 43 II Poetic Th eories of the Social Self 5 Introduction – Christopher J. Berry 59 6 Hobbes and Davenant: Poetry as Civil Science – Philip Connell 63 7 Facing the Misery of Others: Pity, Pleasure and Tragedy in Scottish Enlightenment Moral Philosophy – Christian Maurer 75 8 Poetical Stoical Shaft esbury – Rowan Boyson 89 9 Morality as a Discourse of the Imagination – Christopher Tilmouth 105 III Enlightenment and Romantic Poetologies 10 Introduction: Poetry and/or Enlightenment – Maureen N. McLane 121 11 James Th omson’s Th e Seasons and the Transformative Potential of Poetry in the Early Scottish Enlightenment – Pierre Carboni 127 12 ‘Furnishing Light’: Wordsworth, Poetry and the Science of Man in Enlightenment Scotland – Catherine Packham 139 13 Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism and Humanity – Simon Swift 153 Notes 169 Index 201 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Th is book is the result of a project which took shape during a year-long post- doctoral research fellowship Tom Jones spent at PHIER (Philosophies et rationalités, EA3297), a research centre in the department of philosophy at Uni- versité Clermont-Ferrand II (Blaise Pascal). Both editors, but Tom in particular, extend thanks to all colleagues at the centre whose intellectual and social hospi- tality played such a large part in bringing about this publication. Th e chapters gathered here were all presented at a series of workshops held between April 2010 and June 2011, at Clermont-Ferrand, St Andrews and King’s College, Cambridge. Th e editors would like to thank all three of these institutions for fi nancial support, and support in kind, which made the workshops possible. We would also like to thank other participants at the workshops who gave papers, acted as respondents, introduced more formal discussion sessions and provided the rich dialogue that characterized each of the events: Laurentiu Andrei, Laura Berchielli, Pete de Bolla, Emanuel Cattin, Robert Crawford, Howard Erskine- Hill, Penny Fielding, Sébastien Gandon, Julie Giangiobbe, Laurent Jaff ro, Susan Manning, Neil Pattison, Alain Petit, Élisabeth Schwartz, Craig Smith and Mike Sonenscher all deserve special mention. Th e editors brought together contribu- tions from the workshops and commissioned the introduction to each section, in two cases off ered by participants in one of the workshops whose papers had already been committed to publication elsewhere. We would like to thank the authors of the section introductions for their attentiveness to writing in such a constrained genre. Catherine Packham acted in an editorial capacity with respect to the chapters by the two editors and the introduction and she has our warm thanks for doing so, and for giving so generously of her time to this pro- ject. Th e editors would also like to thank Mark Pollard and the editors of Th e Enlightenment World series at Pickering & Chatto for their enthusiasm and responsiveness towards the project. As this book was going to press the editors learnt of the death of Susan Man- ning. Many of the following essays record the great personal and scholarly debt researchers in our fi eld owe to Susan and her work. Th e editors and contributors express their sadness at the loss of a warmly loved and admired colleague. – ix –
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