Madoc’s Pantisocracy
Most readers and critics believe Madoc to be a poetic materialization of a Pantisocracy, a utopian community based on the principles of egalitarianism and Aspheterism that Southey and Coleridge unsuccessfully strived to establish on the banks of river Susquehanna in America. Strains of their Pantisocratic vision are visible in the initial drafts of Madoc, where … Read more