William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… life highlights the political tension that informs Wordsworthian sociability, which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Correspondence Domesticity French Revolution … that his poetry, even that of the most inward-looking kind, engages with public issues and explores various forms of community. The Prelude (1805) celebrates ‘Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind’ (book VIII) and declares that the … notable expression in the Convention , in which he articulates a simultaneously local, national, and global vision of community: 5 . Jonathan Bate, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (New York, NY; London: Taylor …
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