William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… of the 1790s, Wordsworth travelled to revolutionary France twice – in 1790 and 1791 – where he moved in revolutionary circles and came to embrace republicanism, which he later recorded in books VI and IX-X of The Prelude . When he returned … 1, AB-Stage Reading Text, ii.195-196, p.129. The outermost and all-embracing circle of benevolence has inward concentric circles which, like those of the spider’s web, are bound together by links, and rest upon each other; making one frame, and capable of one tremor; circles narrower and narrower, closer and closer, as they lie more near to the centre of self from which they proceeded, …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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