"The Fretful Stir": The Romantic Poets, Ireland, and the 1798 Rebellion
Abstract:The repudiation of radicalism in Wordsworth and Coleridge's disavowal of politics in the years 1797–98 is often attributed to generalized fears of a French invasion, or a recoil from "remembered terror" years earlier. This essay contends that the terror was both closer to home, and to the present, in the form...