William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… People > Art and Literature Keywords Correspondence Domesticity French Revolution Politics Solitude In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats famously distanced himself from ‘the wordsworthian or … participating directly in the pamphlet war that was then raging in Britain: he wrote, but did not publish, the vitriolic Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), in which he defended the French Revolution in the wake of the Terror; in the … was pressed for money, refused to learn German, and stayed at the isolated town of Goslar. His ‘violent hatred of letter-writing’ 4 only compounded his sense of exile. This explains why his move to Grasmere at the very end of 1799 …
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