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The Doctrine of Leadership in the Greater Romantic Poets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

B. H. Lehman
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In his interesting discussion of the politics of the greater romantic poets, Mr. Walter Graham throws light not so much upon the work of the poets as upon the men themselves. The illumination is biographical rather than critical. Is it not possible to carry the analysis of the material further, to view the problem involved in the political doctrines of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley in such a way as to give a literary as well as a biographical significance to the data? The importance of such analysis for Scott, Southey, and Keats is less, and in any case cannot be undertaken in the present paper. With respect to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron, however, such a consideration has not only its own value but would confirm and also perhaps offer a correction of the biographical view.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 1922 , pp. 639 - 661
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1922

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References

1 P.M.L.A. XXXVI, 60-78.

2 See Ode, “Who rises on the banks of Seine.”

3 Prose Works of William Wordsworth, London, 1896, II 205.

4 Ibid., I 129 ff.

5 Ibid., I 208.

6 Ibid., I 84 ff.

7 Wordsworth wrote in 1840 to Professor Reed : “It was … gratifying to me … that you should have considered the Tract on the Convention of Cintra in relation to my poems …” Memoirs of William Wordsworth Boston 1851, I, 418.

8 E.g. Prelude V, ll. 39-41; XIV, ll. 188-192.

9 Poetical Works, ed. Hutchinson, p. 305.

10 Ibid., p. 304.

11 Ibid., p. 514.

12 Ibid., p. 442.

13 Ibid., p. 291.

14 See e.g. Prelude XIV, ll. 147 ff., Reclusc, Part First, ll. 669 ff. and sonnets ‘composed while the author was engaged in writing a tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra.‘

15 Stephen, Hours in a Library, London, 1907, III, 146-7.

16 Ibid., 166.

17 The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, New York, 1854, Table Talk, VI, 393.

18 Ibid., VI, Table Talk, 318, 380, 415.

19 Ibid., II, The Friend, 68.

20 Ibid., I, The Manual, 427; II, The Friend, 114-115.

21 Ibid., I, The Manual, 427.

22 Ibid.., I, Aids, 129.

23 Ibid., VI, Table Talk, 319.

24 Ibid., VI, Table Talk, 380.

25 Ibid., I, Manual, 428; Biographia Literaria, III, 251.

26 Ibid., III, Biographia Literaria, 251.

27 Ibid.., I, Statesman's Manual, 428.

28 Ibid., I, Statesman's Manual, 442.

29 Ibid., I, Aids, 257.

30 Ibid., II, The Friend, 164.

31 Ibid., II, The Friend, 148.

32 Ibid.., II, The Friend, 146.

33 Ibid., I, Manual, 423.

34 Ibid., VII, Poems, 77.

35 Ibid., VII, 83.

36 Ibid., VII, Poems, 83.

37 Ibid., I, Manual, 429.

38 Ibid., VI, Lay Sermon, 170-1.

39 Ibid., II, The Friend, 79 ff.

40 Delivered May 18, 1825.

41 Complete Works, IV, Essay on Prometheus, 351.

42 Ibid., VI, Lay Sermon, 170-1.

43 Ibid., VII, Poems, 56.

44 In the Widener Collection, Harvard College Library.

45 The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Hutchinson, 1914, p. 37.

46 Notes to Queen Mab.

47 Irish Pamphlet, written with this conviction.

48 Poetical Works, ed. Hutchinson, 1914, p. 571.

49 Ibid., p. 616.

50 B. S. Allen: Shelley and Godwin, Unpublished dissertation in Harvard College Library, p. 325.

51 The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Oxford edition 1914, Don Juan, III; cf. also Childe Harold, IV, clxxviii.

52 The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, ed. R. E. Prothero, London, 1898, V, 383, 403.

53 Ibid., 155.

54 Ibid., 188-9.

55 Letters and Journals, VI, 112; cf. also V, 20 and VI, 257.

56 Ibid., V, 136.

57 Lara, II, xxiii.

58 Ibid., II, xxiii.

59 Childe Harold, II, xxvi.

60 Ibid., IV, xxi.

61 Ibid., IV, cviii.

62 Preface to Prometheus Unbound.

63 Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, London, 1857, I, 238.

64 Preface to Prometheus Unbound.

65 See Froude, Thomas Carlyle, I, 216.

66 Cain, Act I, Scene 1.

67 Manfred, Act I, Sc. I.

68 Ibid., Act II, Sc. IV.