Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... trial was first evidence of the repression that would be sustained against the democratic reform movement in years to come . Its immediate consequence at Cambridge , however , was to encourage and unite the friends of liberty in ...
... trial was first evidence of the repression that would be sustained against the democratic reform movement in years to come . Its immediate consequence at Cambridge , however , was to encourage and unite the friends of liberty in ...
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... trial was over in a single day . Paine was found guilty without the jury retiring to consider their verdict , and ... Trials , xxii . 397–8 . 2 State Trials , xxii . 468 . 3 Thomas Erskine , A View of the Causes and Consequences of the ...
... trial was over in a single day . Paine was found guilty without the jury retiring to consider their verdict , and ... Trials , xxii . 397–8 . 2 State Trials , xxii . 468 . 3 Thomas Erskine , A View of the Causes and Consequences of the ...
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... trial in this manuscript reveal the almost farcical nature of the proceedings — almost , were it not that the defendants ' lives depended on the outcome of the trials : During the progress of these trials I was present at least some ...
... trial in this manuscript reveal the almost farcical nature of the proceedings — almost , were it not that the defendants ' lives depended on the outcome of the trials : During the progress of these trials I was present at least some ...
Contents
Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
Copyright | |
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