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In the following excerpt, Jeffrey identifies Southey as one of a "sect of poets" that included Wordsworth and Coleridge, and offers a harsh assessment of this group and its aim to focus ...
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In the following excerpt, Beach compares Coleridge's beliefs regarding nature and "spirit" with Wordsworth's stance regarding nature and religion.
There was a moment, in [C...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1954 in The Verbal Icon, Wimsatt examines the various poetic structures used by Romantic poets, including Wordsworth and Coleridge, in works with natura...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1875, Brandes compares the views of liberty held by the Lake Poets with those of the later Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley.
Coleridge and th...
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In the following essay, Feiling presents Southey's and Wordsworth's often criticized transformation from liberalism to conservatism as a shift based on the two poets' desire to sa...
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In the following essay, Fairchild traces the passage of the Lake Poets from liberalism and naturalistic Romanticism to conservatism and Burkian Romanticism.
The Lake poets gradually cease to find in n...
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In the following essay, Carnali surveys the events that contributed to the conservative thinking of Southey and other early nineteenth-century figures,.
In the years that followed Waterloo, few men we...
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In this essay De Quincey offers his reflections on the personalities of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and compares their poetic styles and philosophical views.
A circumstance which, as much as a...
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In the following excerpt, Hughes-Hallett comments on the beginnings of the friendship between Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and De Quincey.
Soon after reaching Grasmere in Christmas week 1799 the yo...
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In the following excerpt, Herford discusses the poetic styles of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey and comments on the influence that the three poets had on each other.
[Wordsworth and Coleridge] wer...
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In the following essay, Griggs details the association between Southey and Coleridge, commenting on the impact the two poets had on one another's work.
"O Southey," wrote Coleridg...
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In the following essay, Elwin examines the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the context of their personal and literary relationships with each other and with their circle of relatives and acquainta...
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In the following excerpt, Modiano traces the gradual process of alienation that occurred between Wordsworth and Coleridge, focusing on the role of the poets' attitudes regarding nature in the d...
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In the following excerpt, Rannie discusses the Romantic characteristics and influences of Wordsworth's work and the poet's association with Coleridge, Southey, De Quincey, and Charles La...
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In the following essay, originally published in the 1930 edition of Guide Through the Romantic Movement, Bernbaum offers an overview of the Romantic Movement and discusses the differences in the belie...
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Francis Jeffrey
