Fad Fatherhoo

In the face of industrialization and the enhghtened selfinterestnpreached by philosophes, utilitarians, and liberalncapitalists, the Romantic poets sought refuge in the landscapesnof nature and the human heart. They discovered thenquaintness of common people---Wordsworth in his ballads,nScott in his antiquarian Scottish novels, and a wholenmovement of English and European . . .