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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....

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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...

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Wordsworth's poem ‘Yarrow Unvisited’ suggests that it is better not to go somewhere than to go and risk being disappointed. Responding to this idea in the poem ‘Askam Unvisited’, the twentieth-century Cumbrian poet Norman...

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