Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility
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Publisher Description
Why did Wordsworth write his first published poem
to Helen Maria Williams? What role did she play in
forming his views of poetry, and of the French
Revolution? Why was Wordsworth able to recite in
1820 a poem by Miss Williams that he first read in
1790? Was his own poetical sensibility comparable
with that of the older woman? Did the reception of
Wordsworth’s *Poems, in Two Volumes* by Francis
Jeffrey and others—as ‘puerile’, ‘namby-pamby’,
‘lisping’ and ‘affected’—reflect a belief that manly
sense and feminine sensibility, are not compatible?
If so, why did Wordsworth run that risk? This little
book attempts to suggest answers to some of those
questions, and to provoke more systematic
considerations of them all.
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