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Jessica Fay
THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF SIR GEORGE AND LADY BEAUMONT TO THE WORDSWORTH FAMILY, 1803-1829, with a Study of the Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont
(Liverpool, 2021) xxviii + 334 pp.
Reviewed by Richard Matlak on 2022-06-06
Romantic Poetry |
In arguing for the dialogic relationship that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge, Paul Magnuson says that "reading only Coleridge's poetry or only Wordsworth's is somewhat like listening to half of a telephone conversation" (Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue, 18).
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| Kendall McClellan
VIRTUOUS CITIZENS: COUNTERPUBLICS AND SOCIOPOLITICAL AGENCY IN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE
(U of Alabama P, 2021) 182 pp.
Reviewed by Ashley Reed on 2022-05-24
Literature and Culture |
This book joins recent critical attempts to expand definitions of citizenship beyond those bounded solely by the franchise and to show how politically marginalized people increasingly entered into a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century public sphere that was dominated by upper-class men's values and voices.
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