William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… Although he eventually lost faith in revolutionary France, Wordsworth carried much of his radical beliefs over into his poetry of the late 1790s and early 1800s. Both his prose and verse writings register deep concerns about the proximity of … Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956-1971), I: 445. The rootedness of Wordsworth’s poetry signals the strong connection between nationality and locality. 5 This tension between the local and the national indicates that his poetry, even that of the most inward-looking kind, engages with public issues and explores various forms of community. …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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