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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Epigraph
Preface, 1988–2018
Contents
List of illustrations
Abbreviations
A note on texts
New Introduction
1. Voices from the Common Grave of Liberty
Delineating our Present Oppositionists
2. ‘Europe was Rejoiced’: Responses to Revolution, 1789–1791
Bastille and Fédération
The Nicholson Connection
3. ‘Pretty Hot in It’: Wordsworth and France, 1791–1792
Revolutionary selves
‘Through Paris lay my readiest path’, November–December 1791
Wordsworth in the salons: Orléans, winter 1791–1792
Wordsworth among the Jacobins: Blois, February–September 1792
Philosophic warriors, and a hunger‐bitten girl
‘A Holy Train / or Blest Procession’: Wordsworth, John Oswald, Henri Grégoire
‘To Paris I returned’: September–December, 1792
‘Reluctantly to England’, December 1792
4. ‘Mr. Frend’s Company’: Cambridge, Dissent, and Coleridge
Cambridge and dissent
‘Mr. Frend’s company’
Coleridge and Pantisocracy
5. ‘War is Again Broken Out’: Protest and Poetry, 1793–1798
‘Let Others Talk of Glory…’
Comfortable Words for a Comfortless World
‘Jacobin’ Poems?
6. ‘A Light Bequeathed’: Coleridge, Thelwall, Wordsworth, Godwin
‘Giving a tongue to misery’: Coleridge and Thelwall in 1795
‘Cautious William’: Wordsworth in 1794
Tom Paine’s ‘Ardent friend’
‘Scattering the seeds of justice’: Thelwall, Godwin, and Wordsworth’s Philanthropist
Godwin’s Wordsworth: ‘The Philanthropist’, 1794
‘Barricadoing the road to truth’: Wordsworth’s Godwin, London 1795
7. ‘A Sympathy with Power’: Imagining Robespierre
Wordsworth’s ‘hymn of triumph’
‘Excess of glory obscured’: Robespierre, Pitt, and Godwin
Coleridge and the politics of imagination
Mathematics, the ‘lost man’, and Coleridge’s ‘living help’
8. Inner Emigrants: Kindly Interchange, Rash Disdain
‘The new recluse’
‘The men proscribed for loving human kind’: A retrospect from retirement
Spy Nozy and the French invasion plot
Inner emigrants
Epilogue: Daring to Hope
Fear, rage, solitude
The politics of ‘Tintern Abbey’
Appendix 1: Wordsworth and Daniel Isaac Eaton’s Philanthropist
Appendix 2: Wordsworth’s Lost Satire
Bibliography
Index
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