ABSTRACT
In this paper, I shall be looking at the relationship between intellectuals, Romantics and cultural policy in England, with particular reference to the work of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Before I do this, however, I would like, by way of introduction, to rehearse the general questions that this cross-national study of “intellectuals and cultural policy” throws up. Some of these questions are addressed explicitly in this and other papers in these two issues of the journal; others will arise implicitly in the contrasts and the comparisons that emerge from our combined efforts.
