Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... September Massacres , Watt left for Italy : Wordsworth may therefore have met him on an unrecorded visit to Paris in ... September 1792 Watt believed that such connections made him ' more safe than any Englishman in Paris ' , although ...
... September Massacres , Watt left for Italy : Wordsworth may therefore have met him on an unrecorded visit to Paris in ... September 1792 Watt believed that such connections made him ' more safe than any Englishman in Paris ' , although ...
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... September Massacres . He was certainly at Paris in time to hear Grégoire denounce Louis to the convention on 15 November , but since leaving Blois in September he had spent the intervening time at Orléans . It was here that he heard how ...
... September Massacres . He was certainly at Paris in time to hear Grégoire denounce Louis to the convention on 15 November , but since leaving Blois in September he had spent the intervening time at Orléans . It was here that he heard how ...
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... massacres that had taken place at Paris between 2 and 6 September . It was the shadow of these ' lamentable crimes ' that confronted him on his return to the capital in late October or early November . James Watt , Junior , witnessed the ...
... massacres that had taken place at Paris between 2 and 6 September . It was the shadow of these ' lamentable crimes ' that confronted him on his return to the capital in late October or early November . James Watt , Junior , witnessed the ...
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Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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