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The conclusion looks at two different aspects of the afterlife of the liberal poetry and poetics discussed throughout the book. It reads ‘Why I am a Liberal’ by Robert Browning as a sonnet that incorporates the liberalism of Sonnets from the Portuguese into its party-political version of liberalism; and it considers T.S. Eliot’s allusion to Sonnet 26 in his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley as an example of the way that liberalism’s commitment to establishing and regulating the material conditions of freedom is communicated, via Victorian poetry, into the philosophy and poetry of the twentieth century.
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Barton, A. (2017). Conclusion. In: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Thought. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49488-7_6
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