... [England’s poets] bytheir literature enriched their poetry; and what they borrowedfrom the public stock of art and science, they repaid with interest ,by the pleasure and instruction which they ... aroused:Echoes of their mix of promise and threat, anticipation and dread,resound in the writings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesin Britain – a time and a place when the newly disturbing technologywas ... the mediators, not elimin-ate them. He or she must excavate the cultural institutions, the competi-tive readings, the social and political constraints, and above all, theintense mutualities and...