Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... death and self - reproach : the loss of his father . The movement from ' enflamed ' expectation to guilty self - implication in Book Ten is essentially the sequence of the spot in the Two - part Prelude , which recalls how the ...
... death and self - reproach : the loss of his father . The movement from ' enflamed ' expectation to guilty self - implication in Book Ten is essentially the sequence of the spot in the Two - part Prelude , which recalls how the ...
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... death penalty , vindicating Wordsworth's sense of their indecisiveness . After the execution Wordsworth was to justify Louis's death by claiming that he had occupied ' that monstrous situation which rendered him unaccountable before a ...
... death penalty , vindicating Wordsworth's sense of their indecisiveness . After the execution Wordsworth was to justify Louis's death by claiming that he had occupied ' that monstrous situation which rendered him unaccountable before a ...
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... death , reaps death , or worse , And can reap nothing better , childlike longed To imitate - not wise enough to avoid . ( x . 648-51 ) The ' awful proof ' Wordsworth had in mind was the violent repression in France , which culminated in ...
... death , reaps death , or worse , And can reap nothing better , childlike longed To imitate - not wise enough to avoid . ( x . 648-51 ) The ' awful proof ' Wordsworth had in mind was the violent repression in France , which culminated in ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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