01119nam a22001457a 4500 517384 517384 210712b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Beenstock, Zoe 26579 Reforming utilitarianism: lyric poetry in J. S. Mill’s “thoughts on poetry and Its varieties” and autobiography Journal of The History of Ideas 81(4), Oct, 2020: 599-620 Mill’s statement that “poetry is overheard” is often read as a definition of the lyric in miniature and is associated with social retreat. Yet Mill saw his encounter with the Wordsworthian lyric as a corrective to utilitarian social theory, and as a supplement to Adam Smith’s theory of sympathy. Mill suggests that the writings of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham overlook the bond connecting individuals to one another. He reconceives communal aspects of feeling by drawing on Wordsworth’s poetry as the fulfillment of Smith’s affective account of social relations, a development which anticipates affect theory. – Reproduced Journal of The History of Ideas POETRY AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391450 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-12 81(4), Oct, 2020: 599-620 AR124723 2021-07-12 AR