William Wordsworth: Revolution & Romanticism.In 1791, William Wordsworth graduated from and traveled to France, which was then in the throes of the French Revolution. When we think of the today, we picture guillotine blades, beheadings, and the. All those things were years away when William Wordsworth arrived in Paris. At the time, the revolution was a truly political act. No one anticipated how it would later go awry.Until the Revolution, France had been ruled by a monarchy with absolute power, whose policies wrecked the economy.
A frustrated population guided by the values of the Enlightenment sought change. Wordsworth was fascinated by the Republicans, the faction that sought to establish a government headed by a leader of the people's choosing. For an idealistic young European, France was THE place to be.
In his long autobiographical poem, Wordsworth wrote about that time:'For mighty were the auxiliars which then stoodUpon our side, us who were strong in love!Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very Heaven! O times,In which the meagre, stale, forbidding waysOf custom, law, and statute, took at onceThe attraction of a country in romance!' Wordsworth fell in love with a Frenchwoman named Annette Vallon. The two were serious about each other, but by 1792 Wordsworth ran out of money and returned to England, leaving behind a pregnant Vallon and their unborn baby. When war broke out in France, he was unable to go back to his family. It would be a decade before Wordsworth met his daughter Caroline, though he eventually arranged for her financial support.
French literature - From 1789 to the mid-19th century: The French Revolution of 1789 provided no clean break with the complex literary culture of the Enlightenment. Many ways of thinking and feeling—whether based on reason, sentiment, or an exacerbated sensibility—and most literary forms persisted with little change from 1789 to 1815.
Inspired by his experience in France, Wordsworth began to work on a series of poems. The results, two collections of poetry entitled and, were published in 1793.Back in Cambridge, England, a senior named finished reading Descriptive Sketches and decreed that 'seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.' , a vicar's son from Devon, was a brilliant student and poet whose academic career was marred only by his difficulties in making deadlines and waking up on time. In Wordsworth, he recognized the beginnings of a new type of poetry, one that struck him as genius.
'It was the union of deep feeling with profound thought,' wrote, 'the fine balance of truth in observing, with the imaginative faculty in modifying the objects observed.' He finally met Wordsworth in 1795, when the poet and his sister were living in a house together in Dorset, England. He walked an incredible 50 (!) miles to get there, and as he approached Wordsworth noticed that their visitor 'did not keep to the high road, but leaped over a gate and bounded down a pathless field by which he cut off an angle.' Such was 's enthusiasm to reach his new friend.
The two poets took to one another instantly, and in 1797 Dorothy and William moved to a house in Nether Stowey in order to be closer to. Thus began one of the most productive, intense, and unusual three-way friendships in literary history.
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Contents.Background Blake felt that there was a strong connection between the and and that these revolutions had a universal and historical impact. The French Revolution was intended as a poetic history of these current events in Blake's life and was supposed to be an account of Blake's understanding of the described in seven books of poetry first published in 1791. Although Blake was not part of any radical political organizations in England at the time of the French Revolution, his works suggest a connection to revolutionary thought and the poem serves as his involvement in the debate over the merits of the French Revolution.In reaction to the French Revolution and the support of it in England, there was a series of attacks upon the supporters which led to the imprisonment of, the printer of French Revolution. This possibly disrupted the completion of the books, as Johnson was just starting to print the first book, and the project was discontinued.
The only pages that survived are the original proofs for the first book, which are now in the collection of the. Although it cannot be known why Johnson stopped printing Blake's poem, he did print other works by Blake including For Children. The poem currently appears in only one proof copy, and there are few references to The French Revolution until the 20th century. One of these is from, a follower of Blake, who wrote on 10 October 1827 that he wished to find a copy of the poem. The other is from, an early biographer of Blake, who wrote on 24 November 1860 to, a collector of Blake's works, requesting to see the manuscript of The French Revolution. Poem has original text related to this article.
The work is an poem, a poetic meter unique in Blake's poetry to this poem, that describes the events surrounding the French Revolution. Blake was an early supporter of the American Revolution and believed that it would bring about liberty to the rest of mankind. The French, according to Blake, were stuck in a problematic that was represented by the, a prison that kept enemies of the state. As the work continues, he demands that the Bastille be removed and he explains how the American Revolution provoked the French Revolution.The dates spanned in the first book is from May 1789 until July 1789. Although Blake relies on history, he includes characters that are his own, but none of them are characters that he used in his. The work deals with the symbolism of the Bastille, which the seven towers of the Bastille representing a character type that was repressed by an oppressive government.
As the work progresses, a dispute over governmental systems involves many characters including the representative of the feudal system, called Peer, Duke of Burgundy, and the Archbishop of Paris. Themes Within the work, Blake emphasizes the problems of the feudal system and the corruption and decay of the and church. The poem operates, according to G. Bentley, as a ', a war of spirits, of the spirits of freedom and privilege.
Some of the noblest rhetoric in the poem defends the ancient bastions of civilization'. The language that Blake relies on in the poem is very political, but Blake felt that language in such discussions is replaced by rhetoric. In order to overcome that problem, he attempts to return to an original language.Revolution is a recurring theme in Blake's works. In Blake's, his views are expressed in the character of. In The French Revolution, the ideas expressed are in direct contrast to those who stood against the French Revolution, including. He accomplishes this by merging myth with history in order to create an apocalyptic vision that connects with the revolution.
Other Romantic poets use imagery, but Blake's interpretation has a strong moral foundation. Like Blake's view of the American Revolution, in America, or the views expressed in, the politics of the time are incorporated into a greater. Altizer 1985 pp. 184–185.
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