Nicholas Roe 
Wordsworth and Coleridge [PDF ebook] 
The Radical Years

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This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s radical careers in the three decades since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from newspapers and printed sources; the poetry of 1798 is given more detailed attention, and thecritical debate surrounding new historicism is freshly appraised. A new introduction reflects on how the book was originally researched, offers new insights into the notorious Lonard Bourdon killings of 1793, and revisits John Thelwall’s predicament in 1798. University politics, radical dissent, and first-hand experiences of Revolutionary France form the substance of the opening chapters. Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s relations with William Godwin and John Thelwall are tracked in detail, and both poets are shown to have been closely connected with the London Corresponding Society. Godwin’s diaries, now accessible in electronic form, have been drawn upon extensively to supplement the narrative of his intellectual influence. Offering a comparative perspective on the poets and their contemporaries, the book investigates the ways in which 1790s radicals coped with personal crisis, arrests, trumped-up charges, and prosecutions. Some fled the country, becoming refugees; others went underground, hiding away as inner migrs. Against that backdrop, Wordsworth and Coleridge opted for a different revolution: they wrote poems that would change the way people thought.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 368 ● ISBN 9780192565440 ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8103385 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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