Pantisocracy

With some others of like mind they formed a little society, which they called the Pantisocracy, from Greek words meaning all-equal - rule.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

With several other friends, the two forged a plan to create a "Pantisocracy," or "equal rule of all," in which the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution could be fully realized on the banks of the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania.

Biographical Note on Robert Southey 2007

The latter reference is to Coleridge's and Robert Southey's ambitious utopian scheme, "Pantisocracy," but we should not let their failure ever to realize that idealized dell overshadow the poem's more immediate aims,13 akin to the French Revolution's own, by then vanishing, goals of liberté, égalité, fraternité.

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

Bristol, were planning a "Pantisocracy," or ideal community, on the banks of the Susquehannah, and denouncing the British government for going to war with the French Republic.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Those were the days, too, in which young Southey and young Coleridge, having married sisters at Bristol, were planning a "Pantisocracy," or ideal community, on the banks of the Susquehannah, and denouncing the British government for going to war with the French Republic.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

He fell in love with Sara Fricker as he fell in love with the French Revolution and with the scheme of "Pantisocracy," and it is indeed extremely probable that the emotions of the lover and the socialist may have subtly acted and reacted upon each other.

English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

a plan for a 'Pantisocracy' (a society where all should be equal), a community of twelve young couples to be founded in some 'delightful part of the new back settlements' of America on the principles of communistic coöperation in all lines, broad mental culture, and complete freedom of opinion.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Pantisocracy was an idea that should have remained the harmless notion of creative but naive young men.

Wordsworth & Coleridge I « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

Their goal was to emigrate to America to practice Pantisocracy by forming a communal, utopian settlement where everyone would live in harmony and brotherhood.

Biographical Note on Robert Southey 2007

Performed in 1788 (1792) was among the books that Coleridge read (in London in the first half of September 1794) while preparing for the proposed emigration to carry out the Pantisocracy scheme in Pennsylvania (Holmes 77).

Names 2007