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100			_aChandler, James K.
245			_aWordsworth's second nature : a study of the poetry and politics
260			_bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c1984 _aChicago :
300			_axxiv, 313 p. ; _c23 cm.
365			_b40.00 _c$ _d89.40
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major works–in The Prelude, above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the discussion, which restores Wordsworth to both the French and English contexts in which he matured, is a consideration of his relation to Rousseau and Burke. Chandler maintains that by the time Wordsworth set forth his "program for poetry" in 1798, he had turned away from the Rousseauist idea of nature that had informed his early republican writings. He had already become a poet of what Burke called "second nature"–human nature cultivated by custom, habit, and tradition–and an opponent of the quest for first principles that his friend Coleridge could not forsake. In his analysis of the poetry, Chandler suggests that even Wordsworth's most apparently private moments, the lyrical "spots of time," ideologically embodied the uncalculated habits of an oral narrative discipline and a native English mind.
650			_aBiographies
650			_aEnglish poetry
650			_aLiterature and the revolution
650			_aFiction and Literature
650			_aLiterature Studies and Criticism
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