Five long winters : the trials of British Romanticism /
Bugg, John W.,1972-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
Introduction : the repressive 1790s -- Plots discovered : Coleridge, Godwin, and the 1795 gagging acts -- Close confinement : John Thelwall and the romantic prison -- "Hell broth" : the trials of Benjamin Flower -- "By force, or openly, what could be done" : Godwin, Smith, Wollstonecraft, and the gagging acts novel -- "I cannot tell" : Wordsworth's gagging acts -- Afterword.
English literature
Politics and literature
Authors, English
Romanticism