William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… and came to embrace republicanism, which he later recorded in books VI and IX-X of The Prelude . When he returned to London in 1792, he associated with supporters of radicalism. Subsequent years reflect his revolutionary sympathies, which … good and to promoting democratic ideals. 1 . Quoted in Robert Woof (ed.), William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (London; New York: Routledge, 2001), vol. 1, p.980. Although he eventually lost faith in revolutionary France, Wordsworth … in Cambridge was 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 …
Correspondence | Domesticity | French Revolution | Politics | Solitude
Encyclopedia