Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... Rights ' to which the SCI referred were annual elections to parliament , and an extension of the franchise to provide full male suffrage and political rights for dissenters : ' the poor Man has an equal Right , but more Need , to have a ...
... Rights ' to which the SCI referred were annual elections to parliament , and an extension of the franchise to provide full male suffrage and political rights for dissenters : ' the poor Man has an equal Right , but more Need , to have a ...
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... Rights of Man first appeared on the bookstalls , he was moving in circles likely to be receptive to Paine's ideas . In 1787 Paine had been elected an honorary member of the SCI , and on 23 March 1791 - a week after publication of The Rights ...
... Rights of Man first appeared on the bookstalls , he was moving in circles likely to be receptive to Paine's ideas . In 1787 Paine had been elected an honorary member of the SCI , and on 23 March 1791 - a week after publication of The Rights ...
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... Rights of Man - exactly seven years earlier in spring 1791 . ' I have written 1300 lines of a poem in which I ... Rights of Man . Man's ' natural rights ' , Paine had argued , ' are the foundation of all his civil rights ' ( R M i . 90 ) ...
... Rights of Man - exactly seven years earlier in spring 1791 . ' I have written 1300 lines of a poem in which I ... Rights of Man . Man's ' natural rights ' , Paine had argued , ' are the foundation of all his civil rights ' ( R M i . 90 ) ...
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Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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