Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets. By tracing parallel experiences of political defeat in the lives of their contemporaries, Nicholas Roe argues against any generalized pattern of withdrawal from politics. Instead, Roe offers a reading of Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and The Recluse emphasizing the integration of the imaginative life and radical experience. As he demonstrates, the loss of revolutionary idealism prefigured the collapse of Coleridge's creative and personal life after 1798, while for Wordsworth revolutionary failure was the key to his emergence as a poet. |
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... Corresponding Society and the Society for Consti- tutional Information . They had been arrested the previous May and held in the Tower and Newgate over the summer . Not surprisingly their dependants were in need of support after four ...
... Corresponding Society and the Society for Consti- tutional Information . They had been arrested the previous May and held in the Tower and Newgate over the summer . Not surprisingly their dependants were in need of support after four ...
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... Corresponding Society's first Address embodied the new mili- tancy in Painite radicalism in declaring that ' THE NATION IS UNREPRESENTED ... THE PRESENT SYSTEM IS TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL - if by the word CONSTITUTION any thing is meant ...
... Corresponding Society's first Address embodied the new mili- tancy in Painite radicalism in declaring that ' THE NATION IS UNREPRESENTED ... THE PRESENT SYSTEM IS TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL - if by the word CONSTITUTION any thing is meant ...
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... Corresponding Society , and ex- plained his reasons for doing so at the mass meeting in Copenhagen Fields , 26 October 1795. ' I have of late ceased to be a member of the society that called this meeting ' , Thelwall said : The plain ...
... Corresponding Society , and ex- plained his reasons for doing so at the mass meeting in Copenhagen Fields , 26 October 1795. ' I have of late ceased to be a member of the society that called this meeting ' , Thelwall said : The plain ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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