Jim: The poets might enjoy Dickens' *Hard Times*. This is a blistering attack on utilitarianism and on Political Economy that was virtually dictated by Carlyle--at whose feet CD was sitting at the time--and so embodies the latter's romantic anti-capitalism. (Marx took the language about the reduction "to the cash nexus" of evrything from Carlyle's Signs of the Time.) And since I'm back in that century, JS Mill's autobiography--detailing his nervous breakdown and rejection of his father's utilitarianism--is great, too. Not that the prose of a Krugman or a Reich isn't full of poetry, of course. But, uh...well, Dickens it's not!
