Title: Wordsworth and Coleridge : the radical years /
Authors: Roe, Nicholas.
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, Political and social views.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Political and social views.; London Corresponding Society.; Radicalism in literature.; Radicalism Great Britain History; Authors, English Biography; Radicals Great Britain Biography.; English poetry French influences; France History Literature and the revolution.; Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Intellectual life
Contents: Introduction. Voices from the common grave of liberty -- 1. 'Europe was rejoiced' : responses to revolution, 1789-1791 -- 2. 'Pretty hot in it' : Wordsworth and France, 1791-1792 -- 3. 'Mr. Frend's company' : Cambridge, dissent, and Coleridge -- 4. 'War is again broken out' : protest and poetry, 1793-1798 -- 5. 'A light bequeathed' : Coleridge, Thelwall, Wordsworth, Godwin -- 6. 'A sympathy with power' : imagining Robespierre -- 7. Inner emigrants : kindly interchange, rash disdain -- Epilogue. Daring to hope -- Appendix. Wordsworth's and Eaton's Philanthropist.