Wordsworth and Coleridge by Nicholas Roe
This study is a much-needed reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Dr Roe presents a detailed examination of both writers' debts to radical dissent in the years before 1789. Wordsworth's first-hand experience of Revolution in France is treated in depth, and both Wordsworth's and Coleridge's relations with William Godwin and John Thelwall are clarified. In each case the poets are shown to have been vividly alive to radical issues in Britain and France, and much more closely involved with the popular reform movement represented by the London Corresponding Society than has hitherto been suspected. The author argues against any generalized pattern of withdrawal from politics into retirement after 1795. He offers instead a reading of Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and The Recluse that emphasizes the integration of imaginative life and radical experience. For Coleridge the loss of revolutionary idealism prefigured the collapse of his creative and personal life after 1798. For Wordsworth, on the other hand, revolutionary failure was the key to his emergence as poet of Tintern Abbey and The Prelude.-
The Making of Percy's Reliques
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Anais Nin, Fictionality and Femininity
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On Sympathy
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Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
- Refugee Writing, Refugee Reading
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Reading Veganism
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Geometries of Empathy
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Poetic Effects in the Prose of Virginia Woolf and Emilio Cecchi
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Committed Styles
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Modernist Parody
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V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought
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Charles Olson and American Modernism
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Memories of a Lost War
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Defending Poetry
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Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction
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Metafiction and the Postwar Novel
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The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism
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The Platonism of Walter Pater
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Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders
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The Art of Hunger
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Du Bartas' Legacy in England and Scotland
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Spatial Poetics
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John Lydgate's Fall of Princes
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South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain
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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
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Melodious Tears
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Shelley and Scripture
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W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State
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Coleridge and the Doctors
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John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine
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Divine Cartographies
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Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne
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Acting Between the Lines
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H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913-1946
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Late Shakespeare
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Ireland and Scotland
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Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print
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The Godwinian Novel
`painstakingly scholarly study.. The book ... fills a conspicuous gap.' Times Literary Supplement
`he brings together in one place much scattered information and a few new details from Godwin's papers ... Roe's research has been strenuous, his attention to detail earnest, and his book will be useful.' E.P. Thompson, London Review of Books
'a close and sophisticated study ... Roe's account is outstanding ... a major contribution to scholarly studies of the period' J.D. Gutteridge, Notes and Queries
`he brings together in one place much scattered information and a few new details from Godwin's papers ... Roe's research has been strenuous, his attention to detail earnest, and his book will be useful.' E.P. Thompson, London Review of Books
'a close and sophisticated study ... Roe's account is outstanding ... a major contribution to scholarly studies of the period' J.D. Gutteridge, Notes and Queries
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780198119692 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198119690 |
| Title | Wordsworth and Coleridge |
| Author | Nicholas Roe |
| Series | Oxford English Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1990-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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