Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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Page 137
... heart to its own will Fashions the laws of nature . Her wilful fashioning of those ' laws ' appears in her simple words ' -that wagon does not care for us- ' , irrationally attributing her own desolation to the wain's desertion of ...
... heart to its own will Fashions the laws of nature . Her wilful fashioning of those ' laws ' appears in her simple words ' -that wagon does not care for us- ' , irrationally attributing her own desolation to the wain's desertion of ...
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... heart . — The pleasures , which we receive from rural beauties , are of little Consequence com- pared with the Moral Effect of these pleasures - beholding constantly the Best possible we at last become ourselves the best possible . In ...
... heart . — The pleasures , which we receive from rural beauties , are of little Consequence com- pared with the Moral Effect of these pleasures - beholding constantly the Best possible we at last become ourselves the best possible . In ...
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... heart to that glorious period when Justice shall have established the universal fraternity of Love ' , Coleridge claims , and then adds , These soul ennobling views bestow the virtues which they anticipate . He whose mind is habitually ...
... heart to that glorious period when Justice shall have established the universal fraternity of Love ' , Coleridge claims , and then adds , These soul ennobling views bestow the virtues which they anticipate . He whose mind is habitually ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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