William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… that shaped his generation, and ultimately the British nation. At once a poet of the Lake District and, from 1843 onwards, the Poet Laureate, Wordsworth explored the concept of sociability on both local and national levels. His … 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 Wordsworth in his reviews … influential Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). Wordsworth came close to 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 …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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