This paper examines William Wordsworth's contribution to an 1808 debate about the Peninsular Uprising where the concept of popular sovereignty was at stake. For Wordsworth, the peninsular people represent an instance of "constituent power"—a power conceived specifically as pre-formal or pre-institutional and yet collective. From 1793 to 1815 Wordsworth is committed to this version of popular sovereignty, but the 1809 tract on the Convention of Cintra represents his most successful effort to sublimate its problematic aspects. I show that an intriguing symmetry between the poet and the peninsular people ultimately legitimates or redeems both
[[abstract]] This is a study of the reception of Wordsworth’s poetry, particularly the Lyrical Ball...
National Elegy examines the development of the elegy over the course of the nineteenth century in Br...
This book investigates the relationship between poetry and protest in the years immediately followin...
William Wordsworth’s interest in Spanish affairs arose with the news of the Spanish Bourbon abdicati...
This developmental study of the poetry of William Wordsworth begins in 1793 and charts Wordsworth's ...
The question of whether and when Wordsworth turned his back on his early political ideals has often ...
William Wordsworth's sonnets of 1802-3 offer an unusually rich insight into the poet's heightened po...
This thesis argues for the deep implication of William Wordsworth’s writings over the period 1794 to...
William Wordsworth created his greatest literary works in wartime, a martial context that defined hi...
"The Sublime Turn Away from Empire" argues that the Haitian Revolution—and Toussaint l'Ouvert...
Wordsworth\u27s political sonnets of summer and fall 1802 recount the sights and sounds the poet enc...
Wordsworth’s major poetry—Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800, 1802) The Prelude [1805], and Poems, in Two V...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).This analysis follows Wordsworth's development as a p...
Wordsworth once declared that for an hour thought given to poetry, he had given twelve to the state ...
No preloApparently contradictory concepts, History and Imagination sometimes ‘walk hand in hand’ and...
[[abstract]] This is a study of the reception of Wordsworth’s poetry, particularly the Lyrical Ball...
National Elegy examines the development of the elegy over the course of the nineteenth century in Br...
This book investigates the relationship between poetry and protest in the years immediately followin...
William Wordsworth’s interest in Spanish affairs arose with the news of the Spanish Bourbon abdicati...
This developmental study of the poetry of William Wordsworth begins in 1793 and charts Wordsworth's ...
The question of whether and when Wordsworth turned his back on his early political ideals has often ...
William Wordsworth's sonnets of 1802-3 offer an unusually rich insight into the poet's heightened po...
This thesis argues for the deep implication of William Wordsworth’s writings over the period 1794 to...
William Wordsworth created his greatest literary works in wartime, a martial context that defined hi...
"The Sublime Turn Away from Empire" argues that the Haitian Revolution—and Toussaint l'Ouvert...
Wordsworth\u27s political sonnets of summer and fall 1802 recount the sights and sounds the poet enc...
Wordsworth’s major poetry—Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800, 1802) The Prelude [1805], and Poems, in Two V...
Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).This analysis follows Wordsworth's development as a p...
Wordsworth once declared that for an hour thought given to poetry, he had given twelve to the state ...
No preloApparently contradictory concepts, History and Imagination sometimes ‘walk hand in hand’ and...
[[abstract]] This is a study of the reception of Wordsworth’s poetry, particularly the Lyrical Ball...
National Elegy examines the development of the elegy over the course of the nineteenth century in Br...
This book investigates the relationship between poetry and protest in the years immediately followin...