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Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

1793–1803

By: Richard E. Matlak

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Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

1793–1803

By: Richard E. Matlak

Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier. Following a chronological arc from October 1793, when the trauma began, until its conclusion in October 1803, when Wordsworth became a poet-soldier, I examine poetic works from The Borderers (1796), the “Discharged Soldier’ (1798), the Two-Part Prelude (1799), Home at Grasmere (1800), and the Liberty sonnets (1803), to follow the Poet working through anxiety, fear, and remorse to a resolution.

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Deep Distresses

William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

By: Richard E. Matlak

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Deep Distresses

William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

By: Richard E. Matlak

Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become related through the intercession of the poet's patron, Sir George Beaumont, who attempts to ameliorate the family tragedy with money and his painting of Pecl Castle in a Storm, while hoping to groom Wordsworth for a place among the cultural elite of London. In its attention to nineteenth-century culture and business, this study offers an entirely new context for reading and re-interpreting many of Wordsworth's major works from Michael through the major lyrics of Poems in Two Volumes and the latter books of The Prelude. Richard E. Matlak is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

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Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

1793–1803

By: Richard E. Matlak

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1793–1803

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Deep Distresses

William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

By: Richard E. Matlak

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William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

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