Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... says that , while he rescued himself from ' the pitfalls of sedition , ... there were thousands as young and as innocent as myself who , not like me , sheltered in the tranquil nook or inland cove of a particular fancy , were driven ...
... says that , while he rescued himself from ' the pitfalls of sedition , ... there were thousands as young and as innocent as myself who , not like me , sheltered in the tranquil nook or inland cove of a particular fancy , were driven ...
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... says ' he was a man whose great bad actions cast a dis [ astrous ] lustre over his name . ' He is now inclined to think with me that the [ actions ? ] of a man so situated must not be judged by common laws , that Robespierre was the ...
... says ' he was a man whose great bad actions cast a dis [ astrous ] lustre over his name . ' He is now inclined to think with me that the [ actions ? ] of a man so situated must not be judged by common laws , that Robespierre was the ...
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... says that Alfoxton lays about Twelve miles below Bridgewater and within Two Miles of the Sea . Mogg says that he never spoke to Doctor Lysons , but that a Woman who is Cook to the Doctor had lived fellow Servant with Mogg at Alfoxton ...
... says that Alfoxton lays about Twelve miles below Bridgewater and within Two Miles of the Sea . Mogg says that he never spoke to Doctor Lysons , but that a Woman who is Cook to the Doctor had lived fellow Servant with Mogg at Alfoxton ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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