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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi Wordsworth and Coleridge The Radical Years Second Edition NICHOLAS ROE 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©NicholasRoe1988 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin1988 SecondEditionpublishedin2018 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018939293 ISBN 978–0–19–881811–3 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OriginallypublishedintheOxfordEnglishMonographsseries OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi To the memory of JOHN THELWALL Citizen, Poet, Prophet – 1764 1834 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi ‘Andpleasewhat’sHulks?’saidI. ‘That’sthewaywiththisboy!’exclaimedmysister,pointingmeout with her needle and thread, and shaking her head at me. ‘Answer him one question, and he’ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships,right’crossth’meshes.’Wealwaysusedthatnamefor marshes,inourcountry. ‘Iwonder who’s putinto prison-ships,andwhythey’reput there?’ saidI,inageneralway,andwithquietdesperation. ItwastoomuchforMrsJoe,whoimmediatelyrose.‘Itellyouwhat, young fellow,’ said she, ‘I didn’t bring you up by hand to badger people’slivesout.PeopleareputintheHulksbecausetheymurder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they alwaysbeginbyaskingquestions.’ (CharlesDickens,GreatExpectations,ch.2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/9/2018,SPi – Preface, 1988 2018 On Tuesday 30 September 1794 the following advertisement appeared onthefrontpageoftheMorningChronicle: ThoseFamilieswhoseHusbandsandFathersarenowinConfinementunder a Charge of HIGH TREASON, and whose Trials will come on in a few Days intreattheIMMEDIATEPECUNIARYASSISTANCEoftheREALFriendstoLiberty. The husbands and fathers charged with treason were the leaders of the LondonCorrespondingSocietyandtheSocietyforConstitutionalInfor- mation. They had been arrested in May and held in the Tower and Newgate over the summer; not surprisingly, their dependents were in need of supportafter four months—hence the subscription organized by theCorrespondingSociety’sCommitteeofCorrespondence. The‘REALFriendstoLiberty’respondedgenerously.On19November, the committee announced that £314 19s. 3d. had been collected, and publishedalistofsubscribers.AmongthemweretheCountessDowager ofStanhope,£20;CharlesJamesFox,£10;ThomasWalkerofManches- ter, 3 guineas; and Francis Place, breeches-maker, 5s. But one contribu- tioninparticularleapsoutofthelist:‘CitizenWordsworth1s.—0d.’This donationwasreceivedbyJohnSmith,abooksellerinPortsmouthStreet, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Smith was also a leader of the 29th Division of the Corresponding Society,anda member ofthecommittee thathad organ- izedthesubscription.Butwhowas‘CitizenWordsworth’,andwashe in factWilliamWordsworth? As it turns out, no. ‘Citizen Wordsworth’ was Henry Wordsworth of JewinStreet,London,andamemberofbooksellerSmith’s29thDivision. Still,thetantalizingpossibilitythatWilliamWordsworthmightbefound amongthemassedfriendsoflibertyintheCorrespondingSocietywasmy starting-point for the more extensive study of Wordsworth’s and Cole- ridge’sradicalyearsinthisbook.Ihavetakentheyearsbetween1789and the poets’ departure for Germany in September 1798 as my period, and havelookedbackatreligiousdissentinCambridgesince1770toprovidea contextforColeridge’spolitics,andforwardsbywayofincorporatingThe Prelude,TheFriend,BiographiaLiteraria,andotherlaterwritings. This new edition of the book has been revised, updated, and slightly expanded.Ihavetakenaccountofthemostsignificantworkinthefieldover the three decadessince the book firstappeared,drawn freshmaterial from manuscripts,newspapers,andelectronicsources,andgivenmoreattention
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