William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… of mapping his career. During the intellectual and political ferment 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 … Critical Heritage (London; New York: Routledge, 2001), vol. 1, p.980. 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 … completed, his early adult years were characterised by a lack of permanent residence, as he lived in London and then in France, subsequently drifting to Racedown in Dorsetshire, and finally to Alfoxden in Somerset. In 1798, he embarked for …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
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