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Introduction
Romantics and Renegades examines the abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism of their youth in the 1790s in order to claim the high ground of Regency Toryism in the 1810s. Central to this scandal is the figure of William Hazlitt, the literary critic who policed their betrayals in his vigilant exposure of their political and poetical inconsistencies. Mahoney's analysis provides new insight into this abiding critical riddle through close historical and figural readings of the rhetoric of romantic apostasy.
Keywords
Coleridge lyric poetics Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Wordsworth
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597624
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-42855-7
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-59762-4
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