William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… People > Art and Literature Mots-clés 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 … that sociability holds in his life and works. Sociability serves at once as a poetic resource, a concept in his prose writings, and a way of mapping his career. During the intellectual and political ferment of the 1790s, Wordsworth … 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 …
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