Author : William Wordsworth
Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Wordsworth's Political Writings by : William Wordsworth
Download or read book Wordsworth's Political Writings written by William Wordsworth. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes the Jacobin A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), infused with the doctrines of Tom Paine; the liberal republican 'prose poem' The Convention of Cintra (1809), the Tory apologetics of Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (1818), and the welfare-state philosophy of the 1835 Postscript in which Wordsworth married the Coleridgean concept of a society leavened by its 'clerisy' to a devastating critique of laissez-faire 'political economy'. The extensive commentary provided by Owen & Smyser to these texts has been converted to footnotes for ease of use.