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William Wordsworth's sonnets of 1802-3 offer an unusually rich insight into the poet's heightened political commitments during the short-lived Peace of Amiens and the subsequent resumption of hostilities with Napoleonic France....

English literature 1800-1899 Wordsworth William(1770-1850) 0000 0001 2127 8691 poetry "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty" creativity republicanism Radicalism revolutionary politics French Revolution Burke Edmund(1729-1797) 0000 0001 2145 0834 Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790) Milton John(1608-1674) 0000 0001 2099 3562 Irish literature 1700-1799 prose 1600-1699

This essay reads the persistent recurrence of “strenuous idleness,” and other such oxymoronic cognates, within William Wordsworth’s output, with a particular focus upon the MS B version of “The Ruined Cottage” (1798). It sets...

English literature 1800-1899 Romantic period Wordsworth William(1770-1850) 0000 0001 2127 8691 poetry The Ruined Cottage(1814) materiality inertia SCIENCE

English literature 1800-1899 Wordsworth William(1770-1850) 0000 0001 2127 8691 poetry blank verse pagination notebooks manuscript study Dove Cottage MS 13)