Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... looked for something which I could not find , Affecting more emotion than I felt . ( ix . 67 , 70-1 ) While he failed to discover ' something ' adequate to the Bastille's symbolic status , Wordsworth's memory also suggests the fragility ...
... looked for something which I could not find , Affecting more emotion than I felt . ( ix . 67 , 70-1 ) While he failed to discover ' something ' adequate to the Bastille's symbolic status , Wordsworth's memory also suggests the fragility ...
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... done Felix Vaughan , and their differing attitudes to Orléans once again serve to establish Wordsworth's position in December 10 CUL Add . MSS 7886/264 . 1791. In 1790 Vaughan had looked for newspapers and signifi- 46 ' Pretty Hot in It '
... done Felix Vaughan , and their differing attitudes to Orléans once again serve to establish Wordsworth's position in December 10 CUL Add . MSS 7886/264 . 1791. In 1790 Vaughan had looked for newspapers and signifi- 46 ' Pretty Hot in It '
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... looked on almost as another work ' , as he told Francis Wrangham on 20 November 1795. ' Its object is partly to expose the vices of the penal law ' , he added , ' and the calamities of war as they affect individuals ' ( E Y , p . 159 ) ...
... looked on almost as another work ' , as he told Francis Wrangham on 20 November 1795. ' Its object is partly to expose the vices of the penal law ' , he added , ' and the calamities of war as they affect individuals ' ( E Y , p . 159 ) ...
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Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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