Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical YearsClarendon Press, 1988 - 306 pages Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets.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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... views . 2. Coleridge , Samuel Taylor , 1772-1834— Political and social views . 3. Radicalism in literature . 4. Radicalism - Great Britain - History . 5 . France- History - Revolution , 1789–1799 — Literature and the Revolution . 6 ...
... views . 2. Coleridge , Samuel Taylor , 1772-1834— Political and social views . 3. Radicalism in literature . 4. Radicalism - Great Britain - History . 5 . France- History - Revolution , 1789–1799 — Literature and the Revolution . 6 ...
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... views to the happiness and the virtue of mankind . I have devoted my life to these glorious purposes , & am at this moment employed upon a composition , embrac- ing the whole doctrine of politics , & in which I shall endeavour to ...
... views to the happiness and the virtue of mankind . I have devoted my life to these glorious purposes , & am at this moment employed upon a composition , embrac- ing the whole doctrine of politics , & in which I shall endeavour to ...
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... views bestow the virtues which they anticipate . He whose mind is habitually imprest with them soars above the present state of humanity , and may be justly said to dwell in the presence of the most high . Regarding every event even as ...
... views bestow the virtues which they anticipate . He whose mind is habitually imprest with them soars above the present state of humanity , and may be justly said to dwell in the presence of the most high . Regarding every event even as ...
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Wordsworth and France 17911792 | 38 |
Cambridge Dissent | 84 |
Protest and Poetry | 118 |
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