Fantasy and Reason

First published in 1984, Fantasy and Reason (now with a new foreword by Judith Summerfield) retraces the major philosophical, moral and social factors bearing on children's development in the eighteenth century, leading up to the poetic expression in book V of Wordsworth's Prelude of a sustained analysis of children's growth, their mental health, and the life of their imaginations.Wordsworth's poe...