Title: Poetics and politics
First published: 1999
Description: Scholarship on Wordsworth has long been concerned with the relationship between his poetry and his politics. Poetics and Politics contributes significantly to the ongoing discussion by breaking through the "either-or" assumption that underwrites most theses. Dr. Liu focuses on the poetry of Wordsworth in the late 1790s and the early 1800s, exploring both his critique of a heroic model of political interventionism and his promotion of an egalitarian model of poet-reader cooperation.

In the context of Wordsworth's crisis of belief, this study shows how his poetic innovations constituted his daring and brilliant revaluation of his political commitment.
Subjects: British Foreign public opinion, English Political poetry, English Revolutionary poetry, English poetry, Foreign public opinion, British, French influences, History, History and criticism, Influence, Political and social views, Political poetry, English, Politics and literature, Radicalism in literature, Revolutionary poetry, English, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Politics in literature
Places: France, Great Britain
People: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Time periods: 19th century, Revolution, 1789-1799
LC classification: PR5892.P64 L58 1999