Jul 15, 2009

John Stuart Mill and poetry

Just in case you feel represented:

"This intensive study however had injurious effects on Mill's mental health, and state of mind. At the age of twenty he suffered a nervous breakdown. As explained in chapter V of his Autobiography, this was caused by the great physical and mental arduousness of his studies which had suppressed any feelings he might have developed normally in childhood. Nevertheless, this depression eventually began to dissipate, as he began to find solace in the Mémoires of Jean-François Marmontel and the poetry of William Wordsworth."

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

1 comment:

Cam said...

'This intensive study however had injurious effects on Mill's mental health, and state of mind.'

Very apt in the lead up to the Gerzensee exams!!!