The politics of nature : William Wordsworth and some contemporaries

Summary: "When the French Revolution went wrong, how did English Jacobins like William Wordsworth respond? Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romantic responses to revolutionary defeat. There is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years, and among his contemporaries hitherto marginal figures like George Dyer and John Bonney are restored to prominence. The poetry and politics of Pantisocracy in Robert Southey and Charlotte Smith are revealed for the first time.

Item details

ISBN: 0333962761 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780333962763 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0333962753 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780333962756 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 244 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. 'Unremembered Kindness': George Dyer and the Poets -- 2. Robert Southey, Pantisocracy, and the Poet's Myth -- 3. Living Without God in the World: Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth -- 4. John Thelwall's Essay, Towards a Definition of Animal Vitality -- 5. The Prison Diary of John Augustus Bonney -- 6. Wordsworth's Secrecy: Gorsas and 'The Philanthropist' -- 7. The Politics of the Wye Valley: Re-Placing 'Tintern Abbey' -- 8. 'Adam of a New World': Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude -- Epilogue: The Noise of the Sea -- App. 1. Robert Southey and the Origin of Pantisocracy -- App. 2. A Checklist of Persons in Bonney's Diary.