Book contents
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Death Zone
- Chapter 2 Chronicle of a Death Untold:
- Chapter 3 Wordsworth in Homage:
- Chapter 4 Wordsworth at Sea
- Chapter 5 Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth’s Late Memorials
- Chapter 6 Wordsworth’s Bardic Vacation
- Chapter 7 Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers:
- Chapter 8 An Aged Man Writes about an Aged Man
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Chapter 8 - An Aged Man Writes about an Aged Man
Wordsworth’s Last Poems and the New Poor Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
Book contents
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Death Zone
- Chapter 2 Chronicle of a Death Untold:
- Chapter 3 Wordsworth in Homage:
- Chapter 4 Wordsworth at Sea
- Chapter 5 Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth’s Late Memorials
- Chapter 6 Wordsworth’s Bardic Vacation
- Chapter 7 Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers:
- Chapter 8 An Aged Man Writes about an Aged Man
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
On 1 August 1845, the MP for Finsbury Thomas Wakley rose to his feet in the House of Commons and asked a disconcerting question of the Home Secretary. Had he any information about conditions in Andover workhouse, for it was reported that the poor people confined there ‘were employed in crushing bones, and that, while so employed, they were in the habit of quarrelling with each other about the bones, of extracting the marrow from them, and of gnawing the meat which they sometimes found at their extremities’?
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- Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later PoetryDialogues with the Dead, pp. 198 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023