Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832-1912). Regarding the poets Wordsworth & Coleridge as his chief inspirations, Hodgson neither held any post as a University teacher nor sought one. He was content living his life retired & devoted to philosophy. His principal work The Metaphysic of Experience (1898) prepared the way for New Realism by means of his criticism of Kant. He further objected to the stance of empiricism in its postulating of persons and things. Hodgson insisted that nether subject nor object are warrented as initial considerations of philosophy.