The Romantics - including poets William Blake and William Wordsworth - lived in the 18th century, but their passionate ideas about imagination and nature are still influential today.
- Lecturer in Literature, Australian Catholic University
Utopia and dystopia are combined in current political thinking, from Donald Trump to the universal basic income.
Often it has been Ireland’s writers and artists that have called out the hopes and failures of national politics, holding the polity to account in the culture.
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