Experimental verse mystery reimagining Coleridge and Southey’s failed American utopia beside the Welsh prince Madoc legend.
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Experimental verse mystery reimagining Coleridge and Southey’s failed American utopia beside the Welsh prince Madoc legend.
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Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects several poems concerning the so-called "Pantisocracy" (meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. What if they had indeed set up such an ideal community on the banks of the Susquehanna? That is the crux of this book's long and fascinating title poem, which depicts events via the mind's eye of one of Southey's reputed descend...
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Sexual content
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Passing references to Byron’s sexual exploits woven into the narrative
Violence & gore
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Colonial frontier conflict and historical violence alluded to
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Substance use
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Wine drinking referenced; Jefferson quaffs Médoc in a pun
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Religious content
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Unitarian and philosophical undertones tied to Pantisocracy ideals
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central utopia, empire-building, colonialism, and post-colonial critique
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Colonial and Indigenous historical suffering in post-colonial framing
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