Wordsworth and Coleridge : the radical years /

Wordsworth and Coleridge : the radical years /

Updated, revised and with new manuscript material, this expanded second edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since th book first appeared.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roe, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, > 1772-1834 > Political and social views.
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Political and social views.
London Corresponding Society.
Authors, English > 19th century > Biography.
Radicals > Great Britain > Biography.
Radicalism in literature.
Radicalism > Great Britain > History.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Literature and the revolution.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1789-1820.
Table of Contents:
  • New introduction
  • Voices from the common grave of liberty
  • "Europe was rejoiced": responses to revolution, 1789-1791
  • "Pretty hot in it": Wordsworth in France, 1791-1792
  • "Mr Frend's company": Cambridge, dissent, and Coleridge
  • "War is again broken out": protest and poetry, 1793-1798
  • "A light bequeathed": Coleridge, Thelwall, Wordsworth, Godwin
  • "A sympathy with power": imagining Robespierre
  • Inner emigrants: kindly interchange, rash disdain
  • Epilogue: daring to hope
  • Appendix 1: Wordsworth and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Philanthropist
  • Appendix 2: Wordsworth's lost satire.