Nicholas Roe is at University of St Andrews.
"[This] excellent study admirably substantiates the exact nature of their political involvement."--
Studies in English Literature"An important attempt to return Romanticism to its proper place as a literary and social movement, as well as a literary and psychological one....Roe's book is detailed and scrupulously researched and documented, but it is also an exciting narrative of two of the most interesting careers in English literary history."--
Virginia Quarterly Review"By his persuasive, cumulative delineation of cultural crisis, mapped on a scale both national, even international, and particular to the work of the two writers and the subculture of Camridge radicals in which they traveled, Roe reveals the rich soil from which the extraordinarily fertile interaction between Coleridge and Wordsworth stemmed when they met at last in the autumn of 1795."--
Review"Here is that genuine rarity, a study that adds enormously to an often treated subject....The rich manuscript sources consulted by Nicholas Roe, in both England and France, have yielded so much new information that all previous treatments are at once superseded....Students of English history and politics, as well as English majors, will here find the best account available of what the turbulent political-intellectual-religious atmosphere of London was like in the decade following the French Revolution....Gifted undergraduates as well as graduate faculty will profit from this outstanding volume."--
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