Damon and Delia Summary
William Godwin

CONTENTS. PART the SECOND. CHAPTER I. In which the Story begins over again. CHAPTER II. The History of Mr. Godfrey. CHAPTER III. A Misanthrope. CHAPTER IV. Much ado about nothing. CHAPTER V. A Woman o... Read more

Biography EssayA protean intellectual, William Godwin enjoyed a career that reflects in microcosm the changing face of literature, society, and politics in England from the onset of the French Revolut... Read more

William Godwin was a controversial British thinker and philosopher whose radical and anarchistic beliefs reflected the idea that all monarchies were "unavoidably corrupt" and that no person should hav... Read more

It was William Godwin's fate to rise suddenly to fame as a radical philosopher at the end of the eighteenth century and then to plunge almost as rapidly into opprobrium and neglect. Brought to public ... Read more

William Godwin was a philosopher, an educationalist, a moralist, a biographer, a historian, a novelist, and a dramatist. His versatility led William Hazlitt to describe him in Lectures on the English ... Read more

Regarded by some of his contemporaries as a dangerous radical and by others as a prophetic visionary, the anarchist William Godwin had a profound effect on British liberalism and, through his son-in-l... Read more