Especially the Romantic Imagination. Yet here it stands closer to death than life, at least in its immediate effect. The original disappointment is seen not as a test, or as aprelude to magnificence, but as a revelation in itself. Kenneth Johnston, Wordsworth and the Recluse, esp. The Vaudracour and Julia romance replaces WW's account of his affair with Annette Vallon, had he been faithfully recounting his history.
Critics wonder about the relation between romance and autobiography, and romance and revolution.
Donald Reiman, 1978. Jerome McGann, Romantic Ideology , 90-92. Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company , 159-162. Harold Bloom, Visionary Company , 162-164. Harold Bloom, ed.