William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… opinion. Other contemporaries were keen to emphasise Wordsworth’s idiosyncrasies. From the publication of Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) onwards, Francis Jeffrey, a prominent critic of the Edinburgh Review , relentlessly excoriated … The Lyrical Ballads also hallmark his personal and creative friendship with S. T. Coleridge, who co-authored the volume. The poems of this period thus materialise the poetic experimentations, mutual influence, and intellectual … started drilling with local volunteers in preparation for a potential invasion from France. In his Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), written with the patronage of Sir George Beaumont, Wordsworth correspondingly addresses the political …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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