Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... lectures delivered at Bristol during 1795 , in which he developed his argument with Godwin , and established his own relation to the democratic reform movement and to its leading spokesman John Thelwall . At the close of his third Lecture ...
... lectures delivered at Bristol during 1795 , in which he developed his argument with Godwin , and established his own relation to the democratic reform movement and to its leading spokesman John Thelwall . At the close of his third Lecture ...
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... lectures of over five hundred people per night ( Tribune , ii . vi ) . But , while his reformist prin- ciples were unaltered by the treason trials , he was now conscious of the dangers faced in publicizing them . Government spies ...
... lectures of over five hundred people per night ( Tribune , ii . vi ) . But , while his reformist prin- ciples were unaltered by the treason trials , he was now conscious of the dangers faced in publicizing them . Government spies ...
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... lectures in November 1793 . 43 James Walsh was therefore responsible , if only indirectly , for Thelwall's emergence as political lecturer and leader of the popular reform movement . Between November 1793 and May 1794 Walsh regularly ...
... lectures in November 1793 . 43 James Walsh was therefore responsible , if only indirectly , for Thelwall's emergence as political lecturer and leader of the popular reform movement . Between November 1793 and May 1794 Walsh regularly ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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