Wordsworth´s Patriotic Poems and Their Significance to-Day (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Wordsworth´s Patriotic Poems and Their Significance to-Day Wordsworth´s pre-eminence as a poet of nature and of rural life has somewhat overshadowed the part of his work devoted to the larger issues, national and international, of his time. It is some times forgotten that the lyrist of The Daffodils and The Daisy, the chronicler of the humble fortunes of Michael and of Ruth, could turn, with equal success of poetic intuition, to the causes that make or mar the greatness of kingdoms and of peoples. It may therefore be not unfitting, during the present crisis, to consider once again the poems of Wordsworth that were inspired by the conflict with Napoleon, and to see what bearing they may have on the strikingly parallel European situation to-day. But to grasp fully the significance of these poems, and to realize the stern passion for liberty which both weights them and gives them wing, it is necessary to trace briefly Wordsworth´s attitude towards the French Revolutionary movement in which Napoleonism had its birth. Wordsworth´s first direct contact with the Revolution took place while he was an undergraduate at Cambridge. During his third summer vacation, he set out with a friend on a Continental tour, and landed at Calais on the eve of July 14, 1790, the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, which was celebrated by the festival of the Oath of Federation. He noted the widespread joy that marked the occasion, the general atmosphere of ´benevolence and blessedness´. But on this journey, which extended to Switzerland and the Italian Lakes, he was more occupied with scenery than with politics. His active interest in the Revolution dates from the following year, when, in November, France again ´lured´ him ´forth´. Much had happened since his former visit - the death of Mirabeau, the flight to Varenncs, the Convention of Pilnitz at which foreign Powers determined to resist French aggression, and the meeting of the Legislative Assembly. After a brief stay in Paris, he moved to Orleans, and thence in the spring of 1792 to Blois. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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