Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... experience was of intellectual assimilation and relative continuity . This differ- ence between them underlines Wordsworth's memory of Cole- ridge's ' regulating influence ' after June 1797 , and of Dorothy's companionship as a ' saving ...
... experience was of intellectual assimilation and relative continuity . This differ- ence between them underlines Wordsworth's memory of Cole- ridge's ' regulating influence ' after June 1797 , and of Dorothy's companionship as a ' saving ...
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... experience — even as he gave that vision of a living universe its fullest and most beautiful expression . But more fundamentally , and in a longer perspective , ' Tintern Abbey ' represents a moment of transition that quietly re ...
... experience — even as he gave that vision of a living universe its fullest and most beautiful expression . But more fundamentally , and in a longer perspective , ' Tintern Abbey ' represents a moment of transition that quietly re ...
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... Experience ' , English , ix ( 1953 ) . ' Robert Southey's Estimate of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : A Study in Human Relations ' , Huntingdon Library Quarterly , ix ( 1945 ) . Grob , A. , ' Wordsworth and Godwin : A Reassessment ' , Studies ...
... Experience ' , English , ix ( 1953 ) . ' Robert Southey's Estimate of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : A Study in Human Relations ' , Huntingdon Library Quarterly , ix ( 1945 ) . Grob , A. , ' Wordsworth and Godwin : A Reassessment ' , Studies ...
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Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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