Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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 40
... suggests that in 1793-4 Wordsworth had indeed been ' circumscribed ' by the coast of Britain . But if that was in ... suggest at a first glance . His name lived on in The Prelude , and also in the seventh volume of Wordsworth's own set ...
... suggests that in 1793-4 Wordsworth had indeed been ' circumscribed ' by the coast of Britain . But if that was in ... suggest at a first glance . His name lived on in The Prelude , and also in the seventh volume of Wordsworth's own set ...
Page 167
... suggest that some members of the reform movement responded to his ideas and adopted those appropriate to their aims ... suggesting that he usually spelt the name with two t's . armchair agitator , a mere theoretician . Yes , Godwin ...
... suggest that some members of the reform movement responded to his ideas and adopted those appropriate to their aims ... suggesting that he usually spelt the name with two t's . armchair agitator , a mere theoretician . Yes , Godwin ...
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... suggests that he may have accompanied his guests towards Bristol , from where on 10 July the Wordsworths continued together over the Severn to Chepstow and the Wye , then on to Tintern . What did Wordsworth and Losh talk about on those ...
... suggests that he may have accompanied his guests towards Bristol , from where on 10 July the Wordsworths continued together over the Severn to Chepstow and the Wye , then on to Tintern . What did Wordsworth and Losh talk about on those ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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