Gothic (Political) Imagination
Posted by Tom Duggett on July 01, 2012 in Guest Blog, Tom Duggett tagged with antiquarianism, Architecture, Coleridge, constitution, gentleman's magazine, gothic cathedral, gothic imagination, gothic political imagination, gothic politics, gothic romanticism, gothic subject, hazlitt, literary form, scott, turner, westminster fire, wordsworth'On reaching the water-side, a spectacle at once sublime and appalling busrt upon my eye – St. Stephen’s Chapel in flames, with the House of Lords a little further to the south, and (the sensation which I felt at the sight as an antiquary and a British subject, I shall not easily forget) the gable of Westminster Hall, contiguous to the fire, apparently alight in two or three places! –'