William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… also brought him closer to Lord Lonsdale, an important figure of Toryism in the north-west of England. In the general election of 1818, when the radical Henry Brougham contested Westmorland, the Lowthers’ political stronghold, Wordsworth began electioneering strenuously to defend the Lowthers’ influence. He canvassed in person, helped set up a pro-Lowther … to the Freeholders of Westmorland (1818). The stakes, Wordsworth believed, were much higher than those of a local election, as he thought the political fate of the country was being played out in his county. In his opinion, Brougham …
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