Pantisocracy

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Pantisocracy (meaning "government by all")[1] was a utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey for an egalitarian community. They originally intended to establish such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States,[2] but by 1795 Southey had doubts about the viability of this and proposed moving the project to Wales. The two men were unable to agree on the location, causing the project to collapse.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fulford, Tim; Kitson, Peter J. (1998). Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Cambridge University Press, p. 107. ISBN 0521591430. 
  2. ^ Newlyn, Lucy (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge University Press, p. 129. ISBN 0521659094. 
  3. ^ Fulford, Tim (2006). Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756-1830. Oxford University Press, pp. 120-121. ISBN 0199273375. 


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