Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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 162
... less important figure on the radical scene - became a martyr to the cause of reform and liberty . Although Godwin never joined the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies , he knew most of the leading members personally and later ...
... less important figure on the radical scene - became a martyr to the cause of reform and liberty . Although Godwin never joined the Corresponding and Constitutional Societies , he knew most of the leading members personally and later ...
Page 194
... less concerned to do so . Godwin , on the other hand , started to call on Wordsworth in July and August - twice finding him not at home . It would be easy to read too much into this . Robert Woof is , perhaps , right in suggesting that ...
... less concerned to do so . Godwin , on the other hand , started to call on Wordsworth in July and August - twice finding him not at home . It would be easy to read too much into this . Robert Woof is , perhaps , right in suggesting that ...
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... less significant than the patriot's happy anticipation of that state . The emphasis is less on immediate fulfilment than aspiration . The patriot ' looks forward with gladdened heart ' , his foresight is ' soul ennobling ' , soaring ...
... less significant than the patriot's happy anticipation of that state . The emphasis is less on immediate fulfilment than aspiration . The patriot ' looks forward with gladdened heart ' , his foresight is ' soul ennobling ' , soaring ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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