Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... later pretended in The Friend . In December 1795 one of his ' chief objects ' announced in the Prospectus to the Watchman was explicitly ' to co - operate ... with the PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES ' in opposing Pitt's and Grenville's Two Acts ...
... later pretended in The Friend . In December 1795 one of his ' chief objects ' announced in the Prospectus to the Watchman was explicitly ' to co - operate ... with the PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES ' in opposing Pitt's and Grenville's Two Acts ...
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... later William Frend's ' Christian , moral , and philosophical principles ' afforded no de- fence before the university court at Cambridge in May 1793 , nor did Fysshe Palmer's dissent serve to mitigate his seven years ' exile at Botany ...
... later William Frend's ' Christian , moral , and philosophical principles ' afforded no de- fence before the university court at Cambridge in May 1793 , nor did Fysshe Palmer's dissent serve to mitigate his seven years ' exile at Botany ...
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... later prayed in his ' Prospec- tus ' to The Recluse . Political Justice enabled him to maintain the ' solicitude for all ' that he first experienced in France in 1792 , and to revive the millenarian hopes of that time . Godwin was the ...
... later prayed in his ' Prospec- tus ' to The Recluse . Political Justice enabled him to maintain the ' solicitude for all ' that he first experienced in France in 1792 , and to revive the millenarian hopes of that time . Godwin was the ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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