Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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 216
... imagination as the focus of his hopes for the amelior- ation of mankind . A crucial factor in doing so was Coleridge's self - perception in Robespierre . In their various lectures during 1795 Coleridge and Thelwall both presented ...
... imagination as the focus of his hopes for the amelior- ation of mankind . A crucial factor in doing so was Coleridge's self - perception in Robespierre . In their various lectures during 1795 Coleridge and Thelwall both presented ...
Page 217
... imagination as the progressive and God - given power that ' stimulates ' to excellence through ' contemplation of splendid Possibilities ' . The imagination emerges as the faculty that sustains the dying motive to progress ' up the ...
... imagination as the progressive and God - given power that ' stimulates ' to excellence through ' contemplation of splendid Possibilities ' . The imagination emerges as the faculty that sustains the dying motive to progress ' up the ...
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... imagination in Book Thirteen and , ultimately , Coleridge's ' primary imagination ' in Biographia . Basil Montagu's manuscript scheme for the ' Proper Mode of teaching Geometry ' and its relation to the developing imagin- ation of a ...
... imagination in Book Thirteen and , ultimately , Coleridge's ' primary imagination ' in Biographia . Basil Montagu's manuscript scheme for the ' Proper Mode of teaching Geometry ' and its relation to the developing imagin- ation of a ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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