01236nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002600060245012200086260003600208300003000244520064400274773003700918906001100955942000700966952010500973  c517384d517384210712b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBeenstock, Zoe926579  aReforming utilitarianism: lyric poetry in J. S. Mill’s “thoughts on poetry and Its varieties” and autobiography  aJournal of The History of Ideas  a81(4), Oct, 2020: 599-620  aMill’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   aJournal of The History of Ideas   aPOETRY  cAR  00102ddc40709391450aIIPAbIIPAd2021-07-12h81(4), Oct, 2020: 599-620pAR124723r2021-07-12yAR