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Wordsworth's Shipwreck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

E. L. McAdam Jr.
E. L. McAdam Jr.*
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New York University, New York 53
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Readers of Wordsworth are aware that the 1790's were years of excitement for the poet —his experiences in France during the Revolution, his love affair with Annette Vallon, his reunion with his sister Dorothy after long separation, and the heady months of talks on poetry with his new friend Coleridge—the only other first-rate poet of his generation. Equally plain is the fact that about 1805 a long decline in Wordsworth's career began: the revolutionary grew conservative, the poet often turned to mere versifying.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , June 1962 , pp. 240 - 247
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1962

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References

Note 1 in page 240 All newspapers quoted are London, and are in the newspaper collection of the British Museum.

Note 2 in page 241 The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. E. de Selincourt (Oxford, 1935), p. 446; hereafter cited as Early Letters.

Note 3 in page 241 Early Letters, p. 446.

Note 4 in page 241 Early Letters, p. 447.

Note 5 in page 241 Early Letters, p. 449.

Note 6 in page 241 The Letters of Charles Lamb, to which are added those of his sister, Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas (London, 1935), i, 382–383; hereafter cited as Letters of Lamb.

Note 7 in page 242 Letters of Lamb, I, 384.

Note 8 in page 242 Early Letters, p. 452.

Note 9 in page 242 Letters of Lamb, I, 387.

Note 10 in page 242 Both are in the British Museum. The second is not listed in Miss Blakey's bibliography of the Minerva Press. I have copies of both. The second has an authentication on the verso of the title-page signed “W. D.,” but it is not clear that he is the author.

Note 11 in page 244 Early Letters, p. 456.

Note 12 in page 244 Early Letters, p. 461–462.

Note 13 in page 244 Early Letters, p. 464–465.

Note 14 in page 245 Letters of Lamb, i, 390–391.

Note 15 in page 245 Early Letters, p. 466.

Note 16 in page 245 Early Letters, p. 469.

Note 17 in page 245 Early Letters, p. 487.

Note 18 in page 246 Letters of Lamb, i, 430.

Note 19 in page 246 Fenwick note, quoted in Poetical Works, ed. de Selincourt and Darbishire, iv, 419.