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Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

1793–1803
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Description

Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier. Following a chronological arc from October 1793, when the trauma began, until its conclusion in October 1803, when Wordsworth became a poet-soldier, I examine poetic works from The Borderers (1796), the “Discharged Soldier’ (1798), the Two-Part Prelude (1799), Home at Grasmere (1800), and the Liberty sonnets (1803), to follow the Poet working through anxiety, fear, and remorse to a resolution.

Author Biography:

Richard E. Matlak is professor emeritus from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod, MA, where he engages in community service, social and athletic activities, scholarship, travel, and family events. He has published five books: Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose, Contributing Editor (1991); British Literature: 1780-1830, Co-editor with Anne K. Mellor (1996); The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 (1997); Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth – John Wordsworth – Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808 (2003); and William Wordsworth: Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), Editor (2016). He also established with Lisa Villa the CrossWorks website "The Berth of the Abergavenny, East Indiaman" http://crossworks.holycross.edu/spcol/
Release date Australia
June 27th, 2024
Pages
126
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
9780367715427
Product ID
38435139

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