This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in \'autonomous\' poetry\'s redistribution of affect.
He renders poetry a Critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life..
No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning.
This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in \'autonomous\' poetry\'s redistribution of affect