Wordsworth's Political Writings
Author | : William Wordsworth |
Publisher | : Humanities-Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781847600769 |
ISBN-13 | : 184760076X |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Download or read book Wordsworth's Political Writings written by William Wordsworth and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 428 pages. 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.